Word: kirisima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern battleships; the enemy had at least four times this strength. But on the night of Nov. 12-13, he sent a boy-sized task force to do a man's job; two nights later he repeated the error. In those engagements, the ancient battleships Hiei and Kirisima plunged into Iron-Bottom...
...second 29,330-ton Japanese battleship, possibly the Kirisima, was bombed, set afire and badly damaged off the Philippine coast by American naval patrol bombers...
...Haruna was the first capital ship known to have been lost by the Japanese in the five-day-old Battle f the Pacific. It and the Kirisima comprise hair the number of ships in the Kongo class...
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