Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWII by Joy Waldron, Michael Mair

Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWII

Joy Waldron, Michael Mair

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In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan’s secret weapon, the Kaiten—a manned suicide submarine—had succeeded in its first m...

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