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Originally Posted by stratege
..... seem's the jap had a few midget subs in and around pearl harbor that day.
I am actually helping on a study that try to put evidence that the navy disclamed the fact that more than 3 midget sub were present that day. This would have been another blow to the navy back in this "old" time....
Difficulty is that no real japaneses report still exist .... but some research shows at least 8 midget might have been present.
One of them could have been INSIDE the port of pearl harbor, and might have launch two torpedos to :
....elaborating the 1994 findings. Hsu's results strengthened evidence that a midget submarine fired two torpedoes at the battleships USS West Virginia (BB-48) and USS Oklahoma (BB-37) during the attack.
source = http://www.usni.org/navalhistory/Art...Nhrodgaard.htm
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There was 5 and ONLY 5 Midgit submarines in and around Pearl Harbor on DEC 7 1941, they where carried across the pacific on the japanese C1 class attack subs I-16, I-18, I-20, I-22 and I-24. They carried the mini-subs right behind the conning tower, they were launched 10 miles off the entrance to pearl and all got sunk, the japanese "Mother subs" where seposed to pick them all up again the next night but none returned BUT after the attack. one sub was still aflot after the attack cuse it radioed back to its mother sub but that was the last they ever heard of it. |
