The Big Bang !

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Aikoku Maru in wartime "dazzle" camouflage.



Anyone making a bigger Bang mod ???

There she goes ..



The Aikoku Maru also functioned as a submarine tender, cargo, and troop transport ship. On the day of the attack, she was carrying various high explosives in her forward holds including ammunition, aerial bombs, mines and her own shells. It is believed a US Avenger attacked the ship and dropped a bomb in the forward hold. The resulting explosion was so violent it destroyed the aircraft and blew the entire forward part of the ship off from the bridge forward. The force explosion was so tremendous it set fires onshore and blew a depression in the lagoon bottom the stern settled into, making it the deepest wreck in the lagoon.