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Imperial Japanese Navy submarines originated with the purchase of five Holland type submarines from the United States in 1904. Japanese submarine forces progressively built up strength and expertise, becoming by the beginning of World War II one of the world's most varied and powerful submarine fleets.
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.
I-52 (伊号第五二潜水艦 (伊52), I Gō Dai Gojūni Sensuikan (I Gojūni), I-52 submarine (I-52)), code-named Momi (樅, "fir tree") was a Type C3 cargo submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy used during World War II for a secret mission to Lorient, France, then occupied by Germany, during which she was sunk.
A Japanese midget submarine grounded on Oahu Beach, Hawaii, 1941. Japanese submarines in the Pacific War consisted of 176 boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the war Japanese submarines sank two US aircraft carriers, a cruiser and numerous other warships. Later they became used to resupply isolated island garrisons.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic , where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
I-58 was a Japanese B3 type cruiser submarine [2] that served in the final year of World War II.Her only significant wartime success came with a conventional torpedo attack upon USS Indianapolis on 30 July 1945.
I-14 was an Imperial Japanese Navy Type A Mod.2 submarine that served during World War II. Designed as a submarine aircraft carrier, she was commissioned in March 1945. She surrendered in August 1945 and was sunk as a target in 1946.
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 ...