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Word: kirisima (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Death of a Fleet | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By United Press, | Title: One Jap Battleship Sunk, Another Hit, In U. S. Attack | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By United Press, | Title: One Jap Battleship Sunk, Another Hit, In U. S. Attack | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

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