title: Kashi Maru
text: # Kashi Maru
  
  Kasi Maru or Kashi Maru (橿丸, Kashi Maru, "live oak") 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 B-25 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".
  
  