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Shipwreck HIJMS Okinoshima

The Japanese minelayer HIJMS Okinoshima sunk here while being towed by the Destroyer Mochizuki, after it was hit by two or three torpedoes on 12 May 1942.

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Text: Kaj Metz
Photos: IJN
Combined Fleet

Where is it?

-5.1, 153.8

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