[Utilizer]

Archive photo and a bit more info at the link for those willing to enquire further, but the bulk of the info is posted here for general discussion. Interesting how even today we are still discovering that there were quite a few things that were not freely disseminated about the war even to this day, when its relevance to current 'military secrets' is of dubious importance.

[mylife]

Very cool.

[doc1019]

For later.

[Paladin2]

[ClearCase_guy]

before being scuttled by U.S. forces

One scuttles one's own ship. The enemy doesn't scuttle you -- they sink you.

[GeronL]

http://www.subart.net/i400_sen_toku.htm

[mylife]

[skinkinthegrass]

interesting.. & very neat.
thxs, for the post.

[cynwoody]

Good Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine

Yamamoto’s brainchild. Two boats, the I-400 and I-401, were built and launched and later sunk as targets off Hawaii by the US Navy. A third, the I-402, was converted to a tanker submarine and was about to be launched when the war ended. It was sunk as a target off the Goto Islands in the East China Sea on 1 April 1946. A fourth, the I-404 (the I-403 was canceled), was 95% complete when the war ended. It was heavily damaged in an air raid on 28 July 1945 and later scuttled. It was salvaged and scrapped in 1952.

[Liberty Valance]

bump

[TigersEye]

One in the submarine class remains missing.

Ragnar Danneskjold knows nothing about that.

[Cold Heart]

Thanks for posting that.

There was an immense amount of ocean dumping of really neat stuff after the war was over.