Kashi Maru
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title:
Kashi Maru
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Kasi Maru or Kashi Maru was a Japanese auxiliary minelayer/merchant ship, sunk in Mbaeroko Bay, near Munda, during a World War II bombing raid on 2 July 1943. Kashi Maru was built in 1940 at the Osaka Iron Works. The ship was unloading a cargo of fuel and vehicles when she was attacked and sunk by USAAF B-25 bombers, escorted by USN F4U fighters. The site of the shipwreck is popular for divers, and was featured in the Nature episode "War Wrecks of the Coral Seas".
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Japanese auxiliary minelayer, now a dive site in the Solomon Islands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashi_Maru
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2021-12-30T19:58:52Z
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