Posted by Goose on January 04, 2018 at 11:40:22 from (174.219.163.123):
Since the subject of Japan's WWII I-400 aircraft carrier submarines came up a week or so ago, I ordered, and have received a book by John Geoghegan, titled "Operation Storm", Japan's name for the I-400 sub program. I'm about 1/4 through the book.
If anyone is interested, the book was billed as a page-turner, and it is. It's hard to put down. The book starts when Admiral Yamamoto got the idea for a bomber-carrying submarine a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor. He reasoned that Japan would never be able to launch an all-out assault on the U.S. Mainland, but was convinced that if Japan could randomly bomb a few choice areas of the U.S. the people would be ready to bargain out of a war. He was wrong.
Japan already had submarines carrying float recon planes, so one of these planes did two missions of dropping incendiary bombs into the forests of Oregon in hopes that huge forest fires could be started that would detract from the war effort. These failed. The first two bombs landed in a forest, but failed to start fires because the forest was too wet. The U.S. had no knowledge of the second two bombs landing. They may still be somewhere in the forests in Oregon.
December 7, 1941 was my 7th birthday, so I remember some of the main events of WWII, including when the A-bombs were dropped, but I can recall few of the lesser details.
Just thought I'd pass this along if anyone is interested. I've always been interested in WWII history, and our daughter has a degree in History with WWII being one of her main interests, although she was more interested in Nazi Germany.
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