Joy Waldron: 1 book
Kaiten
Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine And the First American Ship It Sank in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa exploded. Japan’s secret weapon, the Kaiten—a manned suicide submarine—had succeeded in its first mission.
The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn’t...
