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I-52 (伊号第五二潜水艦 (伊52), I Gō Dai Gojūni Sensuikan (I Gojūni), I-52 submarine (I-52)), code-named Momi (樅, "fir tree") was a Type C3 cargo submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy used during World War II for a secret mission to Lorient, France, then occupied by Germany, during which she was sunk.
The Bombardment of Ellwood during World War II was a naval attack by a Japanese submarine against United States coastal targets near Santa Barbara, California in February 1942. Though the damage was minimal, the event was key in triggering the West Coast invasion scare and influenced the decision to intern Japanese-Americans .
The Type C3 submarine (巡潜丙型改潜水艦, Junsen Hei-gata kai sensuikan, "Cruiser submarine type C modified"), also called I-52-class submarine (伊五十二型潜水艦, I-go-jū-ni-gata sensuikan) were operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Mitsubishi Corporation, between 1943 and 1944, as cargo carriers.
On Sept. 21, 1943, at the height of World War II, a Japanese submarine was parked on the street just south of where the ... 80 years ago, thousands flocked to downtown Fargo to see a captured ...
The Type C Modified or Junsen Type C Modified type (丙型改 or 巡潜丙型改, (Cruiser submarine) Type C Modified) submarines (I-52-class) were submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Mitsubishi Corporation, between 1943 and 1944, as cargo carriers. They were quite long and carried a crew of up to 94 officers and ...
Japanese submarine I-52 may refer to one of the following submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy: . Japanese submarine I-52 (1923), a Kaidai-type submarine; renamed I-152 in May 1942; stricken from active duty in August 1942; used as a stationary training vessel through end of World War II; scrapped in 1948
From 31 May to 8 June 1942, during World War II, Imperial Japanese Navy submarines made a series of attacks on the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.On the night of 31 May – 1 June, three Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarines, (M-14, M-21 and M-24) each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted ...
Born in Kyoto and educated at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Hashimoto volunteered for service in submarines and was aboard submarine I-24 during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hashimoto commanded coastal patrol and training submarines off Japan for much of the war, and in 1944 took command of I-58 , a submarine which was equipped to ...