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I-76/I-176 – sank USS Corvina patrolling off Truk on 16 November 1943, the only known Japanese submarine success against a US submarine – USS Snook was a probable second victim by Japanese submarines. I-176 was lost a year later off Buka Island on 16 May 1944, depth-charged by USS Franks, USS Haggard, and USS Johnston.
The I-400-class submarine (伊四百型潜水艦, I-yon-hyaku-gata sensuikan) Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarines were the largest submarines of World War II, with the final completed submarine being finished roughly a month before the end of the war.
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.
I-400 (伊号第四百潜水艦, I-gō-dai yon-hyaku-sensuikan) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Sentoku-type (or I-400-class) submarine commissioned in 1944 for service in World War II. Capable of carrying three two-seat Aichi M6A 1 "Seiran" (Mountain Haze) float -equipped torpedo bombers , the Sentoku -class submarines were built to launch a ...
The two midget submarines sunk in Sydney Harbour were used to construct a composite midget submarine which toured Australia during the war. On the night of 29 May 1942, five large Japanese submarines positioned themselves 56 kilometres north-east of Sydney Heads. At 3 a.m. the next day one of the submarines launched a reconnaissance aircraft.
On 25 May 2017, sonar images revealed the nearly 60-metre (200 ft)-long section of the submarine, vertically on the seafloor 200 metres (660 ft) deep. Plans called for a submersible to be deployed to confirm identity. [7] The submarine, heavily encrusted with marine life, was positively identified as I-58 on 7 September 2017, by its rudder. [8]
Japanese submarine I-76; Japanese submarine I-77; Japanese submarine I-121; Japanese submarine I-122; Japanese submarine I-123; Japanese submarine I-124; Japanese submarine I-152; Japanese submarine I-153; Japanese submarine I-154; Japanese submarine I-155; Japanese submarine I-156; Japanese submarine I-157; Japanese submarine I-158; Japanese ...
The I-201-class submarines (伊二百一型潜水艦, I-ni-hyaku-ichi-gata sensuikan) were submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. These submarines were of advanced design, built for high underwater speed, and were known as Sentaka-Dai type submarine (潜高大型潜水艦, Sen-Taka-Dai-gata sensuikan, "Submarine High ...