I toured the USS Lionfish, a Balao-class submarine that rescued downed pilots in World War II. Take a look inside.

The USS Lionfish was commissioned in 1944 and earned one battle star for service in World War II. It sank a Japanese ...
National Security Journal on MSN

Japan’s Taigei-class ‘Big Whale’ lithium-ion submarine has a message for the US Navy

Summary and Key Points: Japan’s Taigei-class “Big Whale” submarines are portrayed as a generational step beyond the ...
Walking Archive on MSN

How did Japan’s I-400 submarines fail in World War II?

During World War II, Japan developed one of the most ambitious naval weapons of the conflict—the I-400 Sen-Toku class submarine carriers. These massive submarines, the largest of WW II, were designed ...
KTHV

The story of the Japanese midget submarines

The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid of 7 December 1941. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl ...
The San Bernardino Sun

Captured Japanese submarine was WWII morale-booster for Inland Empire cities

It was mostly wartime bluster but the lead paragraph in a San Bernardino Sun article in 1942 really seemed spot on: “Hirohito and his war lords would have gnashed their teeth in fury yesterday had ...
Naija Gist - Latest

First woman enters Japan's submarine academy

The first female student was admitted to Japan's national naval submarine academy Wednesday after the end of a ban on women on the country's submarines. Saki Takenouchi, 26, entered the academy in a ...
Newsday

Japan dispatches a plane and navy ship after spotting a Russian submarine

TOKYO — Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a southwestern island near Taiwan. The Russian Kilo-class ...