was a Japanese auxiliary minelayer/ merchant ship, sunk in Mbaeroko Bay, near Munda, during a World War II bombing raid on 2 July 1943. ''Kashi Maru'' was built in 1940 at the Osaka Iron Works. The ship was unloading a cargo of fuel and vehicles when she was attacked and sunk by USAAF

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bombers, escorted by USN F4U fighters. The site of the shipwreck is popular for divers, and was featured in the '' Nature'' episode "War Wrecks of the Coral Seas".

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1940 ships World War II merchant ships of Japan Ships sunk by US aircraft Shipwrecks in Ironbottom Sound Solomon Islands in World War II Wreck diving sites Ships built by Osaka Iron Works {{Solomons-stub