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DEEP SECRET: Is there a sunken Japanese sub from WWII off the coast?
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 09/26/2002 | Carl Nolte

Posted on 09/26/2002 6:58:42 AM PDT by Pokey78

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It was a great morning for sea stories Wednesday, and Bill Anderson, a World War II veteran with an eye toward history and an obsession with sunken submarines, had a good one.

"We think we found a Japanese submarine," he said, standing on the deck of his weathered sub hunting boat, the Echo Hunter, at the Pillar Point Marina in Half Moon Bay.


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To: Pokey78

the hulk of a big, powerful Japanese sub sent on a desperate mission to destroy San Francisco in the last days of World War II.

Hmmm, I wonder why they were interested in San Francisco rather than a really important target like Newport Beach or Malibu. Like anyone would even notice an attack on San Francisco.


21 posted on 09/26/2002 12:00:12 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BlueLancer
"Also true ... I don't think that, in our real history, that we should have stopped when we did. Particularly, one of the initial targets should have been Tokyo."

We'd have been doing them a favor: Hiroshima today is the only modern, well-laid-out city I saw in Japan, due no doubt to recent nuclear "urban renewal".

23 posted on 09/26/2002 2:40:06 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: 1Old Pro
I don't think Newport Beach or Malibu were on people's radar screens back in 1945.

I seem to remember that waterfront homes on Lido Island in Newport Beach were selling for $5,000 in 1955.

Now those same homes would sell for $3.5 million, minimum.

D


24 posted on 09/26/2002 7:47:16 PM PDT by daviddennis
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To: Redbob
don't think we would have stopped at dropping only two of the big bombs on them.

And just how many bombs do you think we had?

25 posted on 09/26/2002 7:51:02 PM PDT by cinFLA
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