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After they arrived in Nanao Bay on 4 June 1945, six Aichi M6A1 Seiran ("Clear Sky Storm") aircraft of the Kure-based 631st Naval Air Group joined them, flying in after a stop at Fukuyama, Japan. [3] On 6 June 1945, the submarines and aircraft began training for night air operations in preparation for a surprise Japanese air strike against the ...
The IJN called this type of submarine Sentoku type submarine (潜特型潜水艦, Sen-Toku-gata sensuikan, Submarine Special), shortened from Toku-gata Sensuikan (特型潜水艦, Special Type Submarine). They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations. They were designed to ...
The Japanese applied the concept of the "submarine aircraft carrier" extensively, starting with the J3 type of 1937–38. Altogether 41 submarines were built with the capability to carry seaplanes. Most IJN submarine aircraft carriers could carry only one aircraft, but I-14 had hangar space for two, and the giant I-400 class, three.
Japanese submarine I-8 was the only submarine to complete a round-trip voyage between Japan and Europe during World War II. Type A1 headquarters submarines (three built, I-9, I-10, I-11) Carried one floatplane, two more cancelled 1942. Type A2 headquarters submarine (one built, I-12) Carried one floatplane, hangar and catapult fitted forward.
USS Capelin Possibly sunk November 1943 by minelayer Wakataka and 934th Kōkūtai aircraft or a Japanese mine. [13] USS Cisco Sunk 28 September 1943 by gunboat Karatsu – the former USS Luzon, and a 954th Kōkūtai B5N2 Kate. [13] USS Corvina The only known instance of a US submarine being sunk by a Japanese submarine, sunk by Japanese ...
I-13, I-400, and I-401 soon rendezvoused with I-14 in Nanao Bay, and the submarines were joined by six Aichi M6A1 Seiran ("Clear Sky Storm") aircraft of the Kure-based 631st Naval Air Group, which flew in on 4 June after a stop at Fukuyama, Japan. [7] On 6 June 1945, the submarines and aircraft began training for night air operations in ...
The I-400-class submarines had four 1,680 kW (2,250 hp) diesel engines and carried enough fuel to circumnavigate the world one-and-a-half times. Measuring 122 m (400 ft) long overall, they displaced 5,900 t (6,504 short tons), more than double their typical American contemporaries [3] and much larger than the most common Japanese submarine of the era, the Type B1, which was 109 meters (356 ft ...
The destroyer USS Boyd (DD-544) sank a Japanese submarine southwest of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 which probably was I-39 but could have been I-40. [1] It also has been proposed that land-based United States Navy aircraft teamed with the destroyer USS Radford (DD-446) to sink her [1] and that Radford alone sank her. [1]