Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II (68 page)
Authors: John Geoghegan
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #History
1.
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. 218.
2.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
3.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
4.
Jiro Nakahara, testimony, Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, pp. 38, 140, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (hereafter MBL).
5.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 241.
6.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 260.
7.
Ibid., p. 261.
8.
Ibid.
9.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Fifth War Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0539,
http://www.segundo398.org/patrol_reports/patrol5.pdf
.
10.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
11.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 240.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 262.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Victor S. Horgan, interview by author.
16.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0609.
17.
Ibid.
18.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 262.
19.
Ibid.
20.
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. 68.
21.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
22.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0905.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
1.
John E. Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,”
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
, June 1950, p. 609; John E. Balson, interview by KXA radio, Seattle, October 27, 1945.
2.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Fifth War Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0845,
http://www.segundo398.org/patrol_reports/patrol5.pdf
.
3.
John E. Balson, interview by author.
4.
L Rodney Johnson, interview by author.
5.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.
6.
John E. Balson, interview by author.
7.
Carlo M. Carlucci, interview by author.
8.
Ibid.; John E. Balson, interview by author; Alex Leitch, “The Chase, Capture, and Boarding of a Japanese Submarine,”
Polaris
, December 1985,
http://home.earthlink.net/~richandannie/id71.html
.
9.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0905, 0845, 0945; USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Deck Logs, August 29, 1945.
10.
Carlo M. Carlucci, interview by author.
11.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 266.
12.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 1125. 1325.
13.
Ibid., August 29, 1945, 1340.
14.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
15.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 1755, 1815.
16.
Ibid.
17.
Ibid., August 30, 1945, 0220, 0945.
18.
Ibid., August 30, 1945, 0955.
19.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 265.
20.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 30, 1945, 0955.
21.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.
22.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 30, 1945, 2120.
23.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” pp. 609–10.
24.
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. 242–43; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 266, 242.
25.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 264.
26.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 242.
27.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 273.
28.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author; Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
1.
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. 243–44.
2.
Ibid., p. 243.
3.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.
4.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 267.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 244.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Ibid.; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 268.
10.
Tsugio Yata, “SubRon 1 … Aims for U.S. Fleet at Ulithi and Panama Canal,”
I-401 History, I-401
Submarine Society, Japan.
11.
Ibid.; Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
12.
Yata, “SubRon 1”; Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
13.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 244.
14.
Yata, “SubRon 1,” p. 271.
15.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 267, 271.
16.
Ibid., pp. 271, 268.
17.
Atsushi Asamura, interview by author.
18.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 244; Kazuo Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
[
Divine Dragon Special Attack Unit
] (Tokyo: Koujinsha, 2001), p. 212.
19.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 244.
20.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 270.
21.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.
22.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.
23.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.
24.
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. 68.
25.
Yata, “SubRon 1.”
26.
Carlo M. Carlucci, interview by author.
27.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 266.
28.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 245.
1.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
2.
Charles A. Lockwood,
Sink ’Em All
(New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 340.
3.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Fifth War Patrol Report, August 31, 1945, 1127,
http://www.segundo398.org/patrol_reports/patrol5.pdf
.
4.
Kazuo Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
[
Divine Dragon Special Attack Unit
] (Tokyo: Koujinsha, 2001), p. 211.
5.
Ibid. Others recall the
I-14
arriving before the
I-401
. See 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. 85.
6.
Lockwood,
Sink ’Em All
, pp. 338–39.
7.
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. 69.
8.
Atsushi Asamura, interview by author.
9.
Lockwood,
Sink ’Em All
, p. 339.
10.
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. 245.
11.
Carl Stallcop, interview by author.
12.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.
13.
Carl Stallcop, interview by author.
14.
John E. Balson, interview by author.
15.
Clay Blair, Jr.,
Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan
(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1975), p. 872; Lloyd R. Vasey, “The
I-400
Class of Japanese Submarines,”
Mustang News
29, no. 3 (Fall 2008).
16.
Muneo Bando, interview by author; Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 262.
17.
Lockwood,
Sink ’Em All
, p. 341.
1.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 270.
2.
Ibid., p. 268.
3.
Charles A. Lockwood,
Sink ’Em All
(New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 343.
4.
Wallace C. Karnes, Jr., interview by author.
5.
Ibid.
6.
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/
.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Don Pierson, interview by author.
9.
Paine, “Transpacific Voyage of HIJMS
I-400
.”
10.
Ibid.
11.
Nobukiyo Nambu, interview by author.
12.
Tsugio Yata, “SubRon 1 … Aims for U.S. Fleet at Ulithi and Panama Canal,”
I-401 History, I-401
Submarine Society, Japan.
13.
Kazuo Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
[
Divine Dragon Special Attack Unit
] (Tokyo: Koujinsha, 2001), p. 213.
14.
Ibid., p. 215.
15.
Ibid., p. 216.
16.
Ibid. Others recall the date as September 29, 1945. See 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. 85.
17.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 216.
1.
Carl Boyd and Akihiko Yoshida,
The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II
(Shrewsbury, U.K.: Airlife, 1996), p. 185.
2.
U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan,
Reports of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan
, Series S:
Ship and Related Targets
, Index no. S-01-1:
Characteristics of Japanese Naval Vessels
, Article I:
Submarines
(Washington, D.C.: Operational Archives, U.S. Navy History Division, 1946), p. 3.
3.
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. 84, quoting R. B. Larkin.
4.
R. Kissinger, Jr.,
I-400, I-401 Japanese Submarines, Description of Hull, General Arrangement and Characteristics
(U.S. Navy, 1946), pp. 3, 16, 19.
5.
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/
.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Paul Wittmer, interview by author.
10.
Paine, “Transpacific Voyage of HIJMS
I-400
.”
11.
Paul Wittmer, interview by author.
12.
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. 85.
13.
Don Pierson, interview by author.
14.
Paul Wittmer, interview by author.
15.
Ibid.
16.
New York Times
, June 3, 1946, p. 2.
17.
Kissinger,
I-400, I-401 Japanese Submarines
.
18.
Ibid., p. 1.
19.
John E. Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,”
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
, June 1950, p. 613.
20.
Paine, “Transpacific Voyage of HIJMS
I-400
.”
21.
Norman Polmar and Kenneth J. Moore, “Flights from the Deep,”
Air Force Magazine
87, no. 3 (March 2004).
22.
Paine, “Transpacific Voyage of HIJMS
I-400
.”
23.
Polmar and Moore, “Flights from the Deep.”
24.
U.S. Naval Technical Mission,
Characteristics of Japanese Naval Vessels
, Article I:
Submarines
, p. 10.
25.
Polmar and Moore, “Flights from the Deep.”
26.
Norman Polmar and Dorr B. Carpenter,
Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1904–1945
(London: Conway Maritime Press, 1986), p. 60.
27.
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. 86.
28.
Ibid.
29.
New York Times
, June 3, 1946, p. 2.