On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-era-japanese-sub-discovered-off-hawaii-coast/
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> If you look on Google (use "japanese submarine I-400") you'll get a
> hit that is lots of photos, and there are some of the wreck in there. It's
> amazing to see how large these were, half the length of the Titanic. One
> photo shows the three subs at a Pearl Harbor pier next to an attack
> submarine. It looks toyish in comparison.
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I saw that photo! Wow... I just got done doing some reading, and those
were huge. And pretty advanced - 3-plane hangar, enough spares for a 4th,
launch catapult and a retrieval crane. Essentially, a submersible
carrier. Pretty cool.
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Paul Braun
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