Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship it Sank in WWII

Michael Mair,Joy Waldron

Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship it Sank in WWII
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
23 April 2015
Pages
366
ISBN
9780425272701

Kaiten: Japan’s Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship it Sank in WWII

Michael Mair,Joy Waldron

In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa exploded. Japan’s secret weapon, the Kaiten, a manned suicide submarine, had succeeded in its first mission. The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn’t know of its existence. And the Americans kept it secret as well. Embarrassed by the attack, the U.S. Navy refused to salvage the sunken Mighty Miss. Not until 2001, when a diving team located the wreck, would survivors learn what really happened.

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