Kaiten Kaiten

Kaiten

Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine And the First American Ship It Sank in WWII

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Beschreibung des Verlags

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.
 
In Kaiten, Michael Mair and Joy Waldron tell the full story, from newly revealed secrets of the Kaiten development and training schools to gripping firsthand accounts of U.S. Navy survivors in the wake of the attack, as well as the harrowing recovery efforts that came later.
 
INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

GENRE
Geschichte
ERSCHIENEN
2014
6. Mai
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
384
Seiten
VERLAG
Penguin Publishing Group
GRÖSSE
12,1
 MB

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