The Silent Wrecks of Kwajalein Atoll English Subtitles

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NARRATOR: We are descending
into the World War II Japanese

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shipwreck, the "Akibasan Maru."

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US Navy pilots sank it here at
Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific

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on January 30, 1944.

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It lies with at least 20 other
Japanese ships that were also

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victims of the Allied
campaign to capture

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the Marshall Islands.

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Little is left of the battle
of Kwajalein except memories