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Dive into History (1134 words) |
 | On a dark and stormy night on Oct 14, 1944, the 7,000-tonne Japanese supply ship, the Eikyo Maru, was steaming north-east from Labuan towards the Palawan Passage. |
| She was the biggest in a convoy of a dozen warships rushing to the Philippines to play a part in what was to be the Battle of Leyte - the biggest naval battle in history. |
| In time, her sinking of the Eikyo Maru, one of the Japanese fleet’s biggest supply ships, soon became a forgotten footnote in a theatre of war that saw thousands of similar encounters. |
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