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The task force, on its way from Hampton Roads to Casablanca, had sunk another Japanese submarine, the Type IX RO-501 (formerly U-1224) on 13 May 1944. This was a very effective force, sinking 13 German and Japanese submarines between February 1943 and July 1945. The five destroyer escorts were: USS Francis M. Robinson, Lieutenant J. E. Johansen.
Japanese submarine I-1; Japanese submarine I-2; Japanese submarine I-3; Japanese submarine I-4; Japanese submarine I-5; Japanese submarine I-6; Japanese submarine I-7; Japanese submarine I-8; Japanese submarine I-9; Japanese submarine I-10; Japanese submarine I-11; Japanese submarine I-12; Japanese submarine I-13; Japanese submarine I-15 ...
Imperial Japanese Navy submarines originated with the purchase of five Holland type submarines from the United States in 1904. Japanese submarine forces progressively built up strength and expertise, becoming by the beginning of World War II one of the world's most varied and powerful submarine fleets.
The Imperial Japanese Navy declared I-70 to be presumed lost with all 93 hands off Hawaii and on 15 March 1942 removed her from the Navy list. [3] She was the first Japanese warship sunk by U.S. aircraft during World War II and the first fleet submarine lost in the Pacific campaign of World War II. [3]
This list of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. It includes submarines , battleships , oilers , minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime.
USS Corvina The only known instance of a US submarine being sunk by a Japanese submarine, sunk by Japanese submarine I-176. [13] USS Escolar Sunk 17 October 1944 by a Japanese mine. [13] USS Flier Sunk 13 August 1944 by Japanese mines. [13] USS Grampus Sunk 5 March 1943 by destroyers Minegumo and Murasame or by 958th Kōkūtai naval aircraft. [13]
Delorainee claimed two submarines sunk and Katoomba claimed one. [4] In reality, I-124, sunk with the loss of all 80 men on board, [3] was the only submarine present and she was the first Japanese warship sunk by the Royal Australian Navy [4] and fourth Japanese submarine lost in World War II.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic , where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...