| MOMI (January 5, 1945)
Japanese destroyer, sunk by an aerial torpedo from a plane of the American Escort Carrier Force during the US invasion of Luzon in the Philippines. The destroyer sank west of Manila Bay with all hands, a death toll of 210 souls.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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