Authors: John Geoghegan
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #History
1.
Kazuo Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
[
Divine Dragon Special Attack Unit
] (Tokyo: Koujinsha, 2001), p. 204
2.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), pp. 227–28; Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), pp. 228, 230.
3.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 207.
4.
Tsugio Yata, “SubRon 1 … Aims for U.S. Fleet at Ulithi and Panama Canal,”
I-401 History, I-401
Submarine Society, Japan; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 271.
5.
Masao Okui, interview by author.
6.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 204.
7.
Ibid.; Hidetoshi Namura, “Watashi wa
I-400
Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin datta [I was a witness to the
I-400
surrender],”
Maru
[magazine], September 1976, p. 83.
8.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, pp. 204–205.
9.
Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, and Koji Takaki,
I-400: Japan’s Secret
Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine, Objective Panama Canal
(East Sussex, U.K.: Hikoki, 2006), p. 59
10.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 206.
11.
Ibid., p. 205.
12.
Ibid., p. 206.
13.
Kazuo Takatsuka,
Memories of the I-400
(Japan: privately published, 1996), pt. 3, September 20, 1974.
14.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 206.
15.
Ibid., pp. 206–207.
16.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 231.
17.
Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp, “Sensuikan! IJN Submarine
I-14
, Tabular Record of Movement,” August 15, 1945,
CombinedFleet.com
,
http://www.CombinedFleet.com/I-14.htm
.
18.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 228–32.
19.
Ibid., p. 249.
20.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 228, 231.
21.
Ibid., p. 250.
22.
Ibid., pp. 234, 250.
23.
Ibid., p. 229.
24.
Ibid., p. 230.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 229; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 234–35.
27.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 229; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 234–35.
28.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 235.
29.
Ibid., p. 236.
30.
Ibid., pp. 238, 273.
31.
Ibid., p. 238.
32.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 229.
35.
Ibid., p. 230.
36.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 236.
37.
Ibid., p. 229.
38.
Muneo Bando, “Go Dai-yonhyakuichi (401) Sensuikan Kitou No Omoide [Memories of the I-401’s Return],”
I-401 History, I-401
Submarine Society, Japan, p. 136.
39.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
40.
Bando, “Memories of the I-401’s Return,” pp. 136–40; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 235, 237.
41.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
42.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 231.
43.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 239.
44.
Ibid., pp. 230–31.
45.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
46.
Imperial Rescript Granted the Ministers of War and Navy, August 17, 1945, reproduced in
Psychological Warfare
, pt. 2, supp. 2,
CINCPAC-CINCPOA Bulletin
, no. 164-45.
47.
Namura, “Watashi wa I-400 Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin data,” p. 83.
48.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 235; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 241.
49.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, pp. 238–39.
50.
Ibid., p. 242.
51.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 236.
52.
Ibid., pp. 234, 236.
53.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 199; Haruo Sugiyama, interview by author.
54.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 236.
55.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
56.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.
57.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.
58.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 243; Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 237.
59.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.
60.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 206.
61.
Takatsuka,
Memories of the I-400
, pt. 3, September 20, 1974.
62.
Takatsuka,
Memories of the I-400
, pt. 3, September 20, 1974.
63.
Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, and Koji Takaki,
I-400: Japan’s Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine, Objective Panama Canal
(East Sussex, U.K.: Hikoki, 2006), p. 60.
64.
Masao Okui, interview by author.
65.
Kazuo Nishijima, interview by author.
1.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398) Deck Logs, August 15, 1945.
2.
Thomas O. Paine, “The Transpacific Voyage of HIJMS
I-400
, Tom Paine’s Journal: July 1945–January 1946,” February 1991,
http://www.pacerfarm.org/i-400/
.
3.
John E. Balson, interview by author.
4.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Fifth War Patrol Report, August 19, 1945, 0725,
http://www.segundo398.org/patrol_reports/patrol5.pdf
.
5.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398) Deck Logs, August 18–24, 1945.
6.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 24, 1945, 1504.
7.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 245.
8.
John E. Balson, interview by author.
9.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), p. 233.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author.
12.
Ikuhiko Hata,
Dainiji Taisen Koukuju Shiwa
[
Historical Aviation Stories of World War II
], trans. Shojo Jonda and Sandy Kita (Japan: Chuukou Bunko, n.d.), chap. 10.
13.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 256.
14.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 238.
15.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
16.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 257.
17.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 238.
18.
Ibid.
1.
Victor S. Horgan, interview by author.
2.
USS
Segundo
(SS 398), Fifth War Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0425,
http://www.segundo398.org/patrol_reports/patrol5.pdf
.
3.
Tsugio Yata, interview by author.
4.
Atsushi Asamura, interview by author.
5.
Alex Leitch, “The Chase, Capture and Boarding of a Japanese Submarine,”
Polaris
, December 1985.
6.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
7.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), p. 239.
8.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.
9.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 239.
10.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), p. 258; Muneo Bando, “Memories of the I-401’s Return,” p. 141.
11.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
12.
Heiji Kondo, interview by author.
13.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
14.
Chin-Ji Inouye, interview by author; Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 223.
15.
Mueno Bando, “Memories of the I-401’s Return,” p. 141.
16.
Ibid., p. 142.
17.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
18.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 258.
19.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
20.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0505–0539.
21.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 258.
22.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
23.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 259.
24.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
25.
Ibid.; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 259.
26.
Muneo Bando, interview by author.
27.
Segundo
, Fifth Patrol Report, August 29, 1945, 0539.
28.
Wallace C. Karnes, Jr., interview by author.
29.
Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 259.
30.
Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo
, p. 241.
1.
Kazuo Nishijima, interview by author.
2.
Nobukiyo Nambu,
Beikidoukantai wo Kishuseyo: Sensuikuubo I-401 Kanchou No Shuki
[
Surprise Attack on the American Fleet! Memoir of the I-401 Aircraft-Carrying Submarine by Its Captain
] (Tokyo: Fuami Shobo, 1988), p. 240; Kazuo Nishijima, interview by author; Hidetoshi Namura, “Watashi wa
I-400
Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin datta [I was a witness to the
I-400
surrender],”
Maru
[magazine], September 1976, p. 83.
3.
John E. Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,”
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
, June 1950, p. 607.
4.
Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, and Koji Takaki,
I-400: Japan’s Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine, Objective Panama Canal
(East Sussex, U.K.: Hikoki, 2006), p. 61.
5.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.
6.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 60.
7.
Ibid., p. 61.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Kazuo Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
[
Divine Dragon Special Attack Unit
] (Tokyo: Koujinsha, 2001), p. 208.
10.
Namura, “Watashi wa
I-400
Sen Yojo Kofuku no tachianinin data,” p. 84.
11.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, pp. 60, 62.
12.
Gordon Hiatt, interview by author.
13.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 65.
14.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.
15.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.
16.
Ibid.
17.
Gordon Hiatt, interview by author.
18.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.
19.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.
20.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, pp. 63–64.
21.
Ibid., p. 63.
22.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Gordon Hiatt, interview by author.
27.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.
30.
Clay Blair, Jr.,
Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan
(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1975), p. 196.
31.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.
32.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 63.
33.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 607.
34.
Tsugio Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
[
Phantom Submarine Carrier
] (Tokyo: Kabushiki Gaisha Kojin-sha, 1989), pp. 246–47.
35.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Ibid.
38.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 64.
39.
Harry Arvidson, interview by author.
40.
Ibid.
41.
Sakaida, Nila, and Takaki,
I-400
, p. 64.
42.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.
43.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.
44.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.
45.
Charles A. Lockwood,
Sink ’Em All
(New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 339.
46.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.
47.
Ibid.
48.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.
49.
Robert C. Mikesh,
Aichi M6A1 Seiran: Japan’s Submarine Launched Panama Canal Bomber
, Close-Up 13 (Boylston, Mass.: Monogram Aviation Publications, 1975), p. 22.
50.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.
51.
Ibid.; Sato,
Maboroshi no Sensui Kubo
, p. 248.
52.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 608.
53.
Mikesh,
Aichi M6A1 Seiran
, p. 21.
54.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 209.
55.
Mikesh,
Aichi M6A1 Seiran
, p. 21.
56.
Harry Arvidson, interview by author.
57.
Takahashi,
Shinryu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
, p. 210.
58.
Long, “Japan’s Undersea Carriers,” p. 609.