Japanese I-400

[Sunka]

sink a ferris wheel.

[APDrone]

sink a ferris wheel.

Horryrood!!!!

Thanks for the chuckle... off to a football game.

 

[whiteman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_PeQCPq8QA

favorite part of that is the water coming out of the puppets nose.  

[Butcher]

Want to get pumped up to fly a P40? watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40t6ys8pgNo

[Volron]

Didn't the Japanese have some surprisingly advanced submarine designs.  Advanced enough for us to sink the captured ones rather than let the Russians have a look at them?

Yep.  This is off the wiki page for the Sen Toku I-400-class.


The U.S. Navy boarded and recovered 24 submarines including the three I-400 submarines, taking them to Sasebo Bay to study them. While there, they received a message that the Soviets were sending an inspection team to examine the submarines. To prevent this Operation Road's End was instituted: most of the submarines were taken to a position designated as Point Deep Six, about 60 km (32 nmi) west of Nagasaki and off the Gotō Islands, packed with charges of C-2 explosive and destroyed; they sank to a depth of 200 m (660 ft).
US Navy personnel inspecting the gun of I-400.

Four remaining submarines, I-400, I-401, I-201 and I-203, were sailed to Hawaii by U.S. Navy technicians for further inspection. Upon completion of the inspections, the submarines were scuttled in the waters off Kalaeloa near Oahu in Hawaii by torpedoes from US submarine USS Trumpetfish (SS-425) on June 4, 1946, apparently because Soviet scientists were again demanding access to them.

[Rob52240]

They never managed to deploy the planes in action.

Japanese wanted to bomb Panama canal and that was one use that was thought for it.

Actually they used one of these to bomb Oregon.

[Nathan60]

Actually they used one of these to bomb Oregon.

The Ducks  bomb Oregoin every home game with those gawd awful uniforms.

[Wmaker]

Actually they used one of these to bomb Oregon.

Can you point me to a source? There's good research done on the usbject ahd it mentions nothing about such a raid.



The I-400 was launched in December of 1944 and her sister ship the I-401 a few months later. Now these were not the only aircraft carrying submarines as the I-14 and her sister ships were also able to carry planes, but the I-400 and I-401 were much larger. In fact, even with the low grade fuel oil they had to use, these huge submarines had a range of 40,000 miles.

But the submarines, as huge and powerful as they were, comprised only the means to get three planes to a target. These planes were the Aichi M6A1 Serian, aircraft so secretive that they had not been discovered by the Allies so not given an Allied code name. They were able to fly with floats or, for a faster flight, without them or they could be jettisoned in flight. By early 1945, when preparations were underway for their first mission, finding experienced float plane crews was not easy. Same with locating maintenance personnel.

Held in water tight hangars with the wings folded to their sides and the tail tip folded over, the Serian was able to have the engine artificially warmed up with coolant and oil prior to removal from the hangar and assembly. This reduced the time the sub would be on the surface prior to launch, a process that still was not super swift.

As luck would have it, the war ended literally hours before the launch of its first mission on the US anchorage at Ulithi, so we will never know how effective these planes would have been.

http://modelingmadness.com/scott/books/sp/hikoki/i400.htm

[Rob52240]

It was mentioned on the military channel.  One of their top ten shows but I can't remember if it was on aircraft carriers or subs.

On the I-400 the narrator said it was used to launch a plane that dropped 2 incendiary bombs into the forests of Oregon. 

The US was unaware of this action until after the war and we found records of it.

[gyrene81]

Nuiscance bombing raids just like it was actually used.

the japanese had flying submarines???

[Sunka]

It was mentioned on the military channel.  One of their top ten shows but I can't remember if it was on aircraft carriers or subs.

On the I-400 the narrator said it was used to launch a plane that dropped 2 incendiary bombs into the forests of Oregon. 

The US was unaware of this action until after the war and we found records of it.

The largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations. They were designed to surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered. They also carried torpedoes for close-range combat.

The I-400-class was designed with the range to travel anywhere in the world and return. A fleet of 18 boats was planned in 1942, and work started on the first in January 1943 at the Kure, Hiroshima arsenal. Within a year the plan was scaled back to five, of which only three (I-400 at Kure, and I-401 and I-402 at Sasebo) were completed.<<< Wiki,
I could find nothing about one hitting the west cost,and with only three completed i dont think we would see one even if there where sub's in game.

[Ack-Ack]

I could find nothing about one hitting the west cost,and with only three completed i dont think we would see one even if there where sub's in game.

None hit the west coast. 

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[Karnak]

The Oregon fire bombs were done by balloons from Japan itself as I recall.

[Tracerfi]

The Oregon fire bombs were done by balloons from Japan itself as I recall.

they did send balloons  from japan so yes thats what happend

[Ack-Ack]

The Oregon fire bombs were done by balloons from Japan itself as I recall.

Two Japanese subs though did shell the US west coast, I-17 shelled an oil refinery in Santa Barbara and I-25 shelled Fort Stevens in Oregon.  Both attacks doing very little, if any damage. 

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