[ArrogantBustard]

Expecting accuracy regarding weapons in the American media is hopeless cause.

No kidding. This includes their wording of the damage to the newly discovered wreck. The Ward's after action report is posted in this thread; it notes that the shell which was observed to strike the submarine was observed not to have exploded. A photograph of the Ward is also posted in this thread. That forward deck gun may be a 3" piece. In any case I wouldn't call a through hit from even a 3" shell a "bullet hole", but this is the AP talking, here. They're complete, unadulterated idiots.

AB

[RightWhale]

Oh, a 3" shell. I was wondering, at least a .50 caliber, but that wouldn't make much of a hole, and why would there be just one.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I still have several 35 MM slides taken by my dad in about 1950, of a couple of these "midget" subs on a Japanese beach. There were several kinds. A three man sub carried two torpedos. Another, single man sub, Kaiten (tremendous task)was a guided underwater bomb used ineffectively near the end of the war