Japanese cruiser Abukuma shipwreck

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Japanese cruiser Abukuma

Japanese cruiser Abukuma

Abukuma (阿武隈軽巡洋艦, Abukuma keijun'yōkan) was a Nagara-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Abukuma River in the Tōhoku region of Japan. She saw action during World War II in the Attack on Pearl Harbor and in the Pacific, before being disabled in the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, then bombed and sunk by the USAAF off the Philippines.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese cruiser Abukuma

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