The Kaiten was one of the special attack craft developed in Japan in the later years of WW2. A Kamikaze weapon, it was designed to take its pilot on a one-way trip. It was effectively an enlarged ...
The Battle of Midway is one of the best-known conflicts of World War II, and while the U.S. was victorious, the Japanese IJN Submarine I-168 did severe damage to their fleet. The I-168 had a brief ...
Though the “Silent Service” didn’t pull off sinkings of IJN “flattops ... after WWII ended, was reclassified twice, first as a hunter-killer submarine (SSK-244) and lastly as an ...
The infamous submarine USS Grayback was the scourge ... Under the Pacific” – part of Time-Life Books’ excellent World War II series, the USS Grayback sank a total of fourteen enemy vessels ...