I-400 JAPAN'S SECRET AIRCRAFT-CARRYING STRIKE SUBMARINE: OBJECTIVE PANAMA CANAL
Written by Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, Koji Takaki
Published by Hikoki Publications
in 2006
ISBN: 9781902109457
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- SUBMARINES
- AIRCRAFT
- WORLD WAR II
- JAPAN
- PANAMA
I-400 JAPAN'S SECRET AIRCRAFT-CARRYING STRIKE SUBMARINE: OBJECTIVE PANAMA CANAL
Written by Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, Koji Takaki.
Stock no. 1825227
1st.
2006.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
In mid-1944, the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy tasked the I-400 and its sister boats with a secret mission to attack American cities and to destroy the Panama Canal... Large format. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w and a few colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 9781902109457. Horizontal edges of boards lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Dedication
- History in a Cardboard Box:
- Author's Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Kazuo Takahashi
- Foreword: Joseph M McDowell
- Chapter One
- The Japanese Submarine Service
- Chapter Two
- I-400 Class of Submarine
- Aircraft Carriers
- Chapter Three
- 'Seiran' - the Aichi M6A
- Submarine-based Attack-bomber
- Chapter Four
- Target: Panama Canal
- Chapter Five
- Operations Hikari and Arashi
- Chapter Six
- The Struggle to Return Home
- Chapter Seven
- To Pearl Harbor and the Final Voyage
- Views of I-400 in Pearl Harbor in 1946
- I-400's sinking by experimental torpedoes
- Rediscovery of the I-401, I-400' sistership
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index