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Kaiten
  • Published: 6 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780698146426
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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Kaiten

Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine And the First American Ship It Sank in WWII

  • Michael Mair,Joy Waldron
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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 know of its existence. And the Americans kept it secret as well. Embarrassed by the attack, the U.S. Navy refused to salvage the sunken Mighty Miss. Not until 2001, when a diving team located the wreck, would survivors learn what really happened.
 
In Kaiten, Michael Mair and Joy Waldron tell the full story, from newly revealed secrets of the Kaiten development and training schools to gripping firsthand accounts of U.S. Navy survivors in the wake of the attack, as well as the harrowing recovery efforts that came later.
 
INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
  • Published: 6 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780698146426
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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Praise for Kaiten

"Mair and Waldron weave a powerful tale about how an intersection of youth, patriotism and sacrifice ended in a fiery, suicidal assault on an American warship. More than recounting a battle, this is a very human story that relives one of the most painful episodes of World War II. Seven decades later, the events masterfully recounted in these pages have left painful scars for both sides long after the flames of war subsided on that terrible morning in November 1944."--James P. Delgado, Author of Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare and Khublai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada

"Mair and Waldron masterfully interweave World War II documents, interviews, and oral histories of two opposing nations in mortal conflict to create a rare and intimate view of the Pacific War that provokes the reader to rethink the boundaries of individual courage and national patriotism."--Larry E. Murphy, Chief (retired), Submerged Resources Center, National Park Service