Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II (67 page)

1.
Kazuo Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
[
Divine Dragon Special Attack Unit
] (Tokyo: Koujinsha, 2001), p. 204

2.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), pp. 227–28; Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), pp. 228, 230.

3.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 207.

4.
Tsugio Yata, “SubRon 1 … Aims for U.S. Fleet at Ulithi and Panama Canal,”
I-401 History, I-401
Submarine Society, Japan; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 271.

5.
Masao Okui, interview by author.

6.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 204.

7.
Ibid.; Hidetoshi Namura, “Watashi wa
I-400
Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin datta [I was a witness to the
I-400
surrender],”
Maru
[magazine], September 1976, p. 83.

8.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, pp. 204–205.

9.
Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, and Koji Takaki,
I-400: Japan’s Secret
Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine, Objective Panama Canal
(East Sussex, U.K.: Hikoki, 2006), p. 59

10.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 206.

11.
Ibid., p. 205.

12.
Ibid., p. 206.

13.
Kazuo Takatsuka,
Memories of the I-400
(Japan: privately published, 1996), pt. 3, September 20, 1974.

14.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 206.

15.
Ibid., pp. 206–207.

16.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 231.

17.
Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp, “Sensuikan! IJN Submarine
I-14
, Tabular Record of Movement,” August 15, 1945,
CombinedFleet.com
,
http://www.CombinedFleet.com/I-14.htm
.

18.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 228–32.

19.
Ibid., p. 249.

20.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 228, 231.

21.
Ibid., p. 250.

22.
Ibid., pp. 234, 250.

23.
Ibid., p. 229.

24.
Ibid., p. 230.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 229; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 234–35.

27.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 229; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 234–35.

28.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 235.

29.
Ibid., p. 236.

30.
Ibid., pp. 238, 273.

31.
Ibid., p. 238.

32.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.

33.
Ibid.

34.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 229.

35.
Ibid., p. 230.

36.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 236.

37.
Ibid., p. 229.

38.
Muneo Bando, “Go Dai-yonhyakuichi (401) Sensuikan Kitou No Omoide [Memories of the I-401’s Return],”
I-401 History, I-401
Submarine Society, Japan, p. 136.

39.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

40.
Bando, “Memories of the I-401’s Return,” pp. 136–40; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 235, 237.

41.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.

42.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 231.

43.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 239.

44.
Ibid., pp. 230–31.

45.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.

46.
Imperial Rescript Granted the Ministers of War and Navy, August 17, 1945, reproduced in
Psychological Warfare
, pt. 2, supp. 2,
CINCPAC-CINCPOA Bulletin
, no. 164-45.

47.
Namura, “Watashi wa I-400 Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin data,” p. 83.

48.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 235; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 241.

49.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 238–39.

50.
Ibid., p. 242.

51.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 236.

52.
Ibid., pp. 234, 236.

53.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 199; Haruo Sugiyama, interview by author.

54.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 236.

55.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.

56.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.

57.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.

58.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 243; Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 237.

59.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.

60.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 206.

61.
Takatsuka,
Memories of the I-400
, pt. 3, September 20, 1974.

62.
Takatsuka,
Memories of the I-400
, pt. 3, September 20, 1974.

63.
Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, and Koji Takaki,
I-400: Japan’s Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine, Objective Panama Canal
(East Sussex, U.K.: Hikoki, 2006), p. 60.

64.
Masao Okui, interview by author.

65.
Kazuo Nishijima, interview by author.

1.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398) Deck Logs, August 15, 1945.

2.
Thomas O. Paine, “The Transpacific Voyage of HIJMS
I-400
, Tom Paine’s Journal: July 1945–January 1946,” February 1991,
http://www.pacerfarm.org/i-400/
.

3.
John E. Balson, interview by author.

4.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Fifth War Patrol Report, August 19, 1945, 0725,
http://www.segundo398.org/patrol_reports/patrol5.pdf
.

5.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398) Deck Logs, August 18–24, 1945.

6.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 24, 1945, 1504.

7.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 245.

8.
John E. Balson, interview by author.

9.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), p. 233.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.

12.
Ikuhiko Hata,
Dainiji Taisen Koukuju Shiwa
[
Historical Aviation Stories of World War II
], trans. Shojo Jonda and Sandy Kita (Japan: Chuukou Bunko, n.d.), chap. 10.

13.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 256.

14.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 238.

15.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

16.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 257.

17.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 238.

18.
Ibid.

1.
Victor S. Horgan, interview by author.

2.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Fifth War Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0425,
http://www.segundo398.org/patrol_reports/patrol5.pdf
.

3.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.

4.
Atsushi Asamura, interview by author.

5.
Alex Leitch, “The Chase, Capture and Boarding of a Japanese Submarine,”
Polaris
, December 1985.

6.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

7.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), p. 239.

8.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.

9.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 239.

10.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 258; Muneo Bando, “Memories of the I-401’s Return,” p. 141.

11.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

12.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.

13.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

14.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author; Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 223.

15.
Mueno Bando, “Memories of the I-401’s Return,” p. 141.

16.
Ibid., p. 142.

17.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

18.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 258.

19.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

20.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0505–0539.

21.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 258.

22.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

23.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 259.

24.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

25.
Ibid.; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 259.

26.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.

27.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0539.

28.
Wallace C. Karnes, Jr., interview by author.

29.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 259.

30.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 241.

1.
Kazuo Nishijima, interview by author.

2.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), p. 240; Kazuo Nishijima, interview by author; Hidetoshi Namura, “Watashi wa
I-400
Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin datta [I was a witness to the
I-400
surrender],”
Maru
[magazine], September 1976, p. 83.

3.
John E. Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,”
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
, June 1950, p. 607.

4.
Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, and Koji Takaki,
I-400: Japan’s Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine, Objective Panama Canal
(East Sussex, U.K.: Hikoki, 2006), p. 61.

5.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.

6.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 60.

7.
Ibid., p. 61.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Kazuo Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
[
Divine Dragon Special Attack Unit
] (Tokyo: Koujinsha, 2001), p. 208.

10.
Namura, “Watashi wa
I-400
Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin data,” p. 84.

11.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, pp. 60, 62.

12.
Gordon Hiatt, interview by author.

13.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 65.

14.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.

15.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Gordon Hiatt, interview by author.

18.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.

19.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.

20.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, pp. 63–64.

21.
Ibid., p. 63.

22.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.

23.
Ibid.

24.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Gordon Hiatt, interview by author.

27.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.

28.
Ibid.

29.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.

30.
Clay Blair, Jr.,
Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan
(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1975), p. 196.

31.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.

32.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.

33.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.

34.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), pp. 246–47.

35.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.

36.
Ibid.

37.
Ibid.

38.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 64.

39.
Harry Arvidson, interview by author.

40.
Ibid.

41.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 64.

42.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.

43.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.

44.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.

45.
Charles A. Lockwood,
Sink ’Em All
(New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 339.

46.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.

47.
Ibid.

48.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.

49.
Robert C. Mikesh,
Aichi M6A1 Seiran: Japan’s Submarine Launched Panama Canal Bomber
, Close-Up 13 (Boylston, Mass.: Monogram Aviation Publications, 1975), p. 22.

50.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.

51.
Ibid.; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 248.

52.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.

53.
Mikesh,
Aichi M6A1 Seiran
, p. 21.

54.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.

55.
Mikesh,
Aichi M6A1 Seiran
, p. 21.

56.
Harry Arvidson, interview by author.

57.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.

58.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 609.