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On June 19, 1944, in the vast waters of the Philippine Sea, the Imperial Japanese Navy placed its final hopes on a single warship. IJN Taiho was the most advanced aircraft carrier Japan had ever built — armored flight deck, modern damage control systems, and designed to survive what others could not.

She was considered unsinkable.

Only hours into her first major battle, Taiho was struck by a single torpedo. The damage appeared manageable. The ship remained operational. Aircraft continued to launch and land. Commanders believed the crisis had passed.

They were wrong.

What followed was not an enemy attack, but a catastrophic chain reaction caused by gasoline vapor, ventilation decisions, and human error. For six hours, more than 2,000 sailors unknowingly sat inside a ship slowly turning into a floating bomb.

When the explosion finally came, it did not come from outside the hull — it came from within.

This documentary tells the full story of IJN Taiho’s final day: how cutting-edge design, overconfidence, and one fatal decision combined to destroy Japan’s most modern aircraft carrier from the inside out. It is a story of technology, tragedy, and a lesson written in fire beneath the Philippine Sea.

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