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Japanese Midget Submarine

Attack on Sydney Harbour; Part of the Axis naval activity in Australian waters during World War II: A Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine, believed to be midget No. 14, is raised from Sydney Harbour the day after the attack.

Imperial Japanese Navy Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour, 31 May-1 June 1942. On 29 May 1942 five large Japanese I-class submarines rendezvoused some 35 nautical miles northeast of the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

Corrosion Studies on the USS Arizona with Application to a Japanese Midget Submarine. Brent M. Wilson, Donald L. Johnson, Hans VanTilburg, Matthew A. …

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Imperial Japanese Navy submarines formed by far the most varied fleet of submarines of World War II, including manned tores (), midget submarines (Kō-hyōteki, Kairyu), medium-range submarines, purpose-built supply submarines (many used by the Imperial Japanese Army, see Type 3), fleet submarines (many of which carried an aircraft

With the war lost, Japan took to suicide attacks.

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The 66ft-long ‘man-made object’ found near Simpson Harbour Papua New Guinea is a submarine from a Japanese military base on the country’s northeast coast

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Authors’ Notes: HA-numbers are unknown for the Diego Suarez midget submarines. We use M-16b and M-18b to differentiate the Diego Suarez midget submarines from Pearl Harbor midget submarines.

During and just prior to World War II the Japanese Navy used Magdalena Bay (Bahía Magdalena), 600 miles south of San Diego on the Baja penisula in Mexico, as a hiding place for submarines.

Special Features . AMERICAN PLANS EXPEDITION TO SALVAGE GOLD-LADEN JAPANESE WWII SUBMARINE by the Associated Press; OPERATION TAN NO. 2: The Japanese Attack on Task Force 58’s Anchorage at …

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