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I-401 (伊号第四百一潜水艦, I-gō-dai yon-hyaku-ichi-sensuikan) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Sentoku-type (or I-400-class) submarine commissioned in 1945 for service in World War II.
The wreckage of I-401 was discovered by the Pisces deep-sea submarines of the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory in March 2005 at a depth of 820 metres (2,690 ft). [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] It was reported that I-400 was later found by the same team off the southwest coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu in August 2013 [ 42 ] [ 43 ] at a depth of ...
October 14, 1945 Caption: I-400 (Japanese Submarine, 1944). View of the after 5.5" deck gun, with U.S. Navymen S1c Rudolph Massengill (in pointer's seat) and Torp. 1c Willis Clement. Taken at Yokosuka, Japan, October 14, 1945. Submarines I-14 and I-401 are alongside. Source:
By 1 June 1945, all four submarines of Submarine Division 1—I-13, I-14, I-400, and I-401—had been fueled and equipped with snorkels. [3] I-400 got underway from Kure on 2 June 1945 for a voyage via the Shimonoseki Strait , the Tsushima Strait , and the Sea of Japan to Nanao Bay on the western coast of Honshu near Takaoka , Japan.
After the end of the conflict, several of Japan's most innovative and advanced submarines were sent to Hawaii for inspection in "Operation Road's End" (I-400, I-401, I-201, and I-203) before being scuttled by the U.S. Navy in 1946 when the Soviet Union demanded access to the IJN submarines.
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From the late 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Navy had developed a doctrine of operating floatplanes from submarines to search for targets. [2]In December 1941, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, proposed constructing a large fleet of submarine aircraft carriers (also designated STo or sen-toku — special submarine) whose purpose was to mount aerial ...