The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid of 7 December 1941. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl ...
During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific ...
Key Points - Japan's Taigei-class ("Big Whale") diesel-electric attack submarines, with four completed by 2025 including the recently commissioned JS Raigei, represent a significant leap in ...
Japan has commissioned a new hunter-killer submarine that can operate in shallow seas to protect borders. Called Raigei or Thunder Whale, the diesel-electric submarine is initially planned to operate ...
It was mostly wartime bluster but the lead paragraph in a San Bernardino Sun article in 1942 really seemed spot on: “Hirohito and his war lords would have gnashed their teeth in fury yesterday had ...
On February 27, 1944, a Japanese Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber patrolling over the East China Sea near Okinawa spotted the glinting hull of a submarine surfaced above the water. Earlier that very day, ...