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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 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.
Kozo was a military service member who never worked on an oil tanker, as shown by Imperial Japanese Navy records that document his roles on submarines from the early 1920s through 1943. [ 14 ] During World War II, Kozo was captain of Japanese submarine I-17 , which surfaced just off of Coal Oil Point on the evening of February 23, 1942.
The Imperial Japanese Navy sent submarines to attack ships off Coastal California. On December 20, 1941 at 2:15 pm the Agwiworld was 20 miles (32 km) off Cypress Point, Monterey Peninsula near Monterey Bay when the Japanese submarine I-23 fired 14 artillery shells at her from her single 14 cm (5.5 in) naval gun. The first shell missed and ...
Saufley also engaged in escort and anti-submarine duties, sinking multiple enemy submarines. It took part in assaults on New Georgia, the Green Islands, and Guam, providing call fire support and ...
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.
An American World War II warship that played a key role in Allied campaigns in the Pacific has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean more than 80 years after it was sunk.. The U.S.S ...
HELSINKI (Reuters) -A Finnish court on Friday denied a request for the release of an oil tanker suspected by police of damaging an undersea power line and four telecommunications cables in the ...