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Originally Posted by Freiwillige
How do Japanese subs compare to the U.S. fleetboats I whonder. I know little about them but I did read an article tonight in one of my old WWII magazines about I-17 shelling an oil refinery off the Santa Monica coast in feb. 1942. It has some small details about the I class Japanese subs. Seems fast enough, Has plenty of torpedo tubes and a friggen airplane hanger that can launch a biplane in 15 minutes!  |
They used one such sub's plane to bomb the US in 1942. The plane from the Japanes sub
I-25 bombed a forest near Brookings, Oregon with incendiaries in an attempt to cause forest fires. It was meant to be a retaliation in sort for the Dolittle raid. It was the only time the continental United States was directly bombed during the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Air_Raid