From Japanese WW II sub found off Oahu:
The wreckage of a large World War II-era Japanese submarine has been found by researchers in waters off Hawaii.A research team from the University of Hawaii discovered the I-401 submarine Thursday during test dives off Oahu.
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The submarine is from the I-400 Sensuikan Toku class of subs, the largest built before the nuclear-ballistic-missile submarines of the 1960s.They were 400 feet long and nearly 40 feet high and could carry a crew of 144. The submarines were designed to carry three “fold-up” bombers that could quickly be assembled.
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An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Their mission, which was never completed, reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities.
Their mission was to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities.