What You Need to Know: After years of analysis, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's team discovered the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi in 2015, 3,280 feet deep in the Philippine Sibuyan Sea.

When U.S. forces sank the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Musashi off the Philippines in World War II, about 1,000 of its 2,399 crew members lost their lives. Now, the accounts of 183 of those ...

Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured ... In April 1947, the lead ship sank to the ocean floor after receiving 10 torpedo and 7 bomb hits from American aircraft ...