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No.652 Gokoku Maru launched in 1941

10,438grt for Osaka Shosen KK by Tama SB Co, Osaka Torpedoed by USS Barb off Japan 1944 Image attribution: Ueda Kitachiro Gokoku (GOKOKU MARU by Ueda Kitachiro) Scale metal model of Gokoku Maru

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No.636 Yawata Maru launched in 1939

17,128grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Unyo 1942 Japanese Navy Torpedoed by USS Barb in the China Sea 1944 Image attribution: Larry & Harlan Rief (Mrs Rief in the photo at San Francisco 1941) The carrier Unyo

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