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Military History: Ambitious Ideas: Japan's Sub Warfare
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Posted by Admin on: 2005-03-29 02:26:24 2290
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The 140mm shells wailed into the oil field and began exploding around the storage tanks. The Pacific sun had gone leaving an afterglow to guide the deck gunners. The seventeen rounds did little or no damage but the action would announce that the I-17 had been there. They were the first fire upon America in WW II.
Commander Kozo Nishino’s boat was 4,000 miles from home off Santa Barbara, California when that incident occurred at 5:30 PM on February 25, 1942. I-17 was one 20 Type B-1 subs. 94 officers and men called her home during their missions. They could make 23.5 knots on the surface and 8 knots submerged. So big were the Type B-1s that they each carried a recon seaplane in watertight hangers. She was large at 365.5 feet in length displacing 3,654 tons submerged. Range was 14,000 nautical miles at 14 knots. Seventeen torpedoes were carried for the six forward tubes.
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News Source: COMBATSIM.COM
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Posted on: 2005-03-29 08:11:37