Suicide Submarine

Author : Michael Mair
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0425272702
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaiten written by Michael Mair and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa exploded. Japan’s secret weapon, the Kaiten—a manned suicide submarine—had succeeded in its first mission. The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn’t know of its existence. And the Americans kept it secret as well. Embarrassed by the attack, the U.S. Navy refused to salvage the sunken Mighty Miss. Not until 2001, when a diving team located the wreck, would survivors learn what really happened. In Kaiten, Michael Mair and Joy Waldron tell the full story, from newly revealed secrets of the Kaiten development and training schools to gripping firsthand accounts of U.S. Navy survivors in the wake of the attack, as well as the harrowing recovery efforts that came later. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345030290
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide Submarine! (Formerly the Kaiten Weapon). written by Yutaka Yokota and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide Submarine! written by Yutaka Yokota and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide submarine!. written by Yutaka Yokota and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lt.-Com. Mochitsura Hashimoto
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786257300
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunk: The Story Of The Japanese Submarine Fleet 1941-1945 written by Lt.-Com. Mochitsura Hashimoto and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to Japan’s submarines and what sort of fight did they put up? As far as Japan was concerned, the recent war was waged according to a rigid strategy. There was no detailed operational planning. It was a fight in which science had been ignored. In such circumstances the submarine, always highly vulnerable unless used intelligently, was inevitably sacrificed. Throughout the war the whole submarine fleet was in reality a special attack force in which, in the absence of scientific weapons, the crews were just so much human ammunition. Today we hear much about rearmament. If money is to be spent on armaments, it should be used for scientific development. Never again must we go to war with only a bamboo lance. The Japanese Submarine Fleet was entirely wiped out, but the martial spirits of its sailors are still with us on the far-flung oceans. In the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic we remember the multitude of resentful sleeping warriors; in our ears we hear the whisper of the “voice from the bottom of the sea.” Thus, as one of the few submarine captains to survive, I have taken up my pen to try to record something of the unknown hardships and successes of our submarines. “Despite the gloomy conditions under which they worked, our submarines fought well, and the grim story of Japanese submarine units has been well recorded by former Lieutenant Commander Hashimoto. “It is certainly valuable material, and I wish to recommend it as an excellent history.”—S. Toyoda, Former C.-in-C., Combined Fleet, IJN

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Akihiko Yoshida
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512062
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II written by Akihiko Yoshida and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily from Japanese sources and American wartime intercepts of secret Japanese radio messages, a noted American naval historian and a Japanese mariner painstakingly recorded and evaluated a diverse array of material about Japan's submarines in World War II. The study begins with the development of the first Japanese 103-ton Holland-type submergible craft in 1905 and continues through the 1945 surrender of the largest submarine in the world at the time, the 5300-ton I-400 class that carried three airplanes. Submarine weapons, equipment, personnel, and shore support systems are discussed first in the context of Japanese naval preparations for war and later during the war. Both successes and missed opportunities are analyzed in operations ranging from the California coast through the Pacific and Indian Oceans to the coast of German-occupied France. Appendixes include lists of Japanese submarine losses and the biographies of key Japanese submarine officers. Rare illustrations and specifically commissioned operational maps enhance the text.

Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494672
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor written by James P. Delgado and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pre-dawn darkness of December 7, 1941, five Imperial Japanese Navy submarines surfaced off the coast of Oahu. Secured to the decks of these vessels were secret weapons to be deployed for the first time in modern warfare: two-man midget submarines, intended to enter Pearl Harbor without being detected and torpedo the US Navy battleships lying at anchor there. None of them would return from their mission. “One of the last remaining and persistent mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack is that of the Japanese Midget Submarines. It is a fascinating story of innovation, courage, secrets, and failed expectations. And it is not only a story of the morning hours of December 7, but of the years before to develop these weapons and the years after, where they were deployed in the great Pacific War and how they fared as weapons of war.” These words by Daniel J. Basta, from the foreword of this work, capture both the essence and the impact of The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor. James P. Delgado and his coauthors have worked on the story of these incredible craft for decades. They combed the records of the US Navy and the recollections of its veterans as well as Japanese, Australian, and British archives in order to uncover the truth. They have logged hours of direct observation and research on the midget subs in their final resting places, in some cases more than 1,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific. And in the end, they have woven a tapestry of scholarship, historical sleuthing, scientific insight, and good storytelling that will enthrall specialists and history enthusiasts alike.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849083541
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kamikaze written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of much of the remainder of the Japanese fleet and its air arm in the later half of 1944 left the Japanese Home Islands vulnerable to attack by US naval and air forces. In desperation, the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed using “special attack” formations, or suicide attacks. These initially consisted of crude improvisations of conventional aircraft fitted with high-explosive bombs that could be crashed into US warships. Called “Divine Wind” (Kamikaze), the special attack formations first saw action in 1944, and became the scourge of the US fleet in the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. In view of the success of these attacks, the Japanese armed forces began to develop an entire range of new special attack weapons. This book will begin by examining the initial kamikaze aircraft attacks, but the focus of the book will be on the dedicated special attack weapons developed in 1944. It also covers specialized suicide attack weapons such as anti-tank lunge mines.