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Very interesting program on public television broadcast this evening.
From Nova: "Killer Subs of Pearl Harbor".
An entire program dealing with the five Japanese midget submarines attacking Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
An attack to have been made simultaneously with and in conjunction with the attack on the American fleet moored at anchorage, Pearl Harbor. Attack from above and below!
It is well known what happened to four of the five attacking midgets. Failed totally in their mission, sunk, run aground, scuttled, etc., all accounted for by the U.S. Navy and historians.
One sub and what happened to it remains a mystery and has for almost seventy years now?
Mystery, however, now, solved?
One of those five midget subs DID penetrate the defenses of Pearl Harbor, and DID fire two torpedoes, ONE of which may have been a dud [fired at the Arizona], the other striking home, crippling an American battleship [Oklahoma or West Virginia].
So seems to be the evidence. A midget sub, apparently dumped outside of Pearl Harbor, at a depth of 1,000 feet, MISSING the two torpedoes normally carried by the Type A midget. This apparently is the fifth up-until-now unaccounted for missing sub.
This entire program however, omits a point that to me is even more important.
The torpedoes carried by the Type A were of the Long Lance variety. Top secret potentially war-winning weapon developed as a means for the Japanese Navy to wage asymmetric warfare against the surface fleet of any potential rival. A torpedo used most effectively on a number of occasions during naval surface battles [1942], A WEAPON OF WHICH THE ALLIED NAVAL INTELLIGENCES SUPPOSEDLY HAD NOT INKLING OF!
It was supposedly not until 1943 that the allies captured intact an unexploded Long Lance that had run aground on a Pacific island, having missed the intended target, continuing to run long and far, finally coming ashore without detonating! This is the generally accepted history.
Comments:
* That Long Lance was a formidable weapon. Carrying a 1,000 pound warhead that could do a lot of damage. The Arizona showing absolutely no sign of torpedo damage, but was the target of the dud found in the aftermath of that 7 December attack?
* Those subs [Type A Ko-Hyoteki midget sub] were engineering marvels, running strictly on an electric motor with battery power, two man crew operating the vessel from a compartment about the size of a closet!
* An asymmetric weapon system firing an asymmetric weapon make for a deadly combo.
* Surely analysis of that dud or those Long Lance captured from any of the other Type A subs at Pearl would have alert allied naval intelligence that the Japanese were in possession of an extraordinary naval weapon that gave the enemy a significant advantage during a surface engagement. NO HEED was paid to whatever analysis was done, if any?
coolbert.
Very interesting program on public television broadcast this evening.
From Nova: "Killer Subs of Pearl Harbor".
An entire program dealing with the five Japanese midget submarines attacking Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
An attack to have been made simultaneously with and in conjunction with the attack on the American fleet moored at anchorage, Pearl Harbor. Attack from above and below!
It is well known what happened to four of the five attacking midgets. Failed totally in their mission, sunk, run aground, scuttled, etc., all accounted for by the U.S. Navy and historians.
One sub and what happened to it remains a mystery and has for almost seventy years now?
Mystery, however, now, solved?
One of those five midget subs DID penetrate the defenses of Pearl Harbor, and DID fire two torpedoes, ONE of which may have been a dud [fired at the Arizona], the other striking home, crippling an American battleship [Oklahoma or West Virginia].
So seems to be the evidence. A midget sub, apparently dumped outside of Pearl Harbor, at a depth of 1,000 feet, MISSING the two torpedoes normally carried by the Type A midget. This apparently is the fifth up-until-now unaccounted for missing sub.
This entire program however, omits a point that to me is even more important.
The torpedoes carried by the Type A were of the Long Lance variety. Top secret potentially war-winning weapon developed as a means for the Japanese Navy to wage asymmetric warfare against the surface fleet of any potential rival. A torpedo used most effectively on a number of occasions during naval surface battles [1942], A WEAPON OF WHICH THE ALLIED NAVAL INTELLIGENCES SUPPOSEDLY HAD NOT INKLING OF!
It was supposedly not until 1943 that the allies captured intact an unexploded Long Lance that had run aground on a Pacific island, having missed the intended target, continuing to run long and far, finally coming ashore without detonating! This is the generally accepted history.
Comments:
* That Long Lance was a formidable weapon. Carrying a 1,000 pound warhead that could do a lot of damage. The Arizona showing absolutely no sign of torpedo damage, but was the target of the dud found in the aftermath of that 7 December attack?
* Those subs [Type A Ko-Hyoteki midget sub] were engineering marvels, running strictly on an electric motor with battery power, two man crew operating the vessel from a compartment about the size of a closet!
* An asymmetric weapon system firing an asymmetric weapon make for a deadly combo.
* Surely analysis of that dud or those Long Lance captured from any of the other Type A subs at Pearl would have alert allied naval intelligence that the Japanese were in possession of an extraordinary naval weapon that gave the enemy a significant advantage during a surface engagement. NO HEED was paid to whatever analysis was done, if any?
coolbert.
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