Japanese Forces

Battleship Mutsu

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Japanese battleship "Mutsu" (Nagato-class) during the preparatory work in the naval base at Yokosuka. Sailors busy checking the ship's systems and work on the body of the battleship. She has met her untimely end not through hostile fire, but by internal explosion in the summer of 1943. On the right side of the photo the float-scout Nakajima E8N1 is visible as being loaded, it was the basic reconnaissance aircraft of the Sino-Japanese War.