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Operation Storm: 1 of 4: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II Paperback – March 18, 2014. by John Geoghegan (Author)

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Photo: Naval battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185
伝土佐光信 – 『安徳天皇縁起絵図』 第七巻「壇の浦合戦」、第八巻「安徳天皇御入水」

安徳天皇生誕から、壇ノ浦入水に至る一代を画いたもの。上部の色紙形の書は伝青蓮院宮筆。もとは阿弥陀寺(赤間神宮)内の安徳天皇御霊堂の障子絵であったものが、明治になって軸装に改められた。

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Operation Storm: 1 of 4: Japan’s Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II Paperback – March 18, 2014.  by John Geoghegan  (Author)


In 1941, the architects of Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron of top secret submarines—the Sen-toku or I-400 class—designed as underwater aircraft carriers, each equipped with three Aichi M6A1 attack bombers painted to look like U.S. aircraft. The bombers, called Seiran (which translates as “storm from a clear sky”), were tucked in a huge, water-tight hanger on the sub’s deck. The subs’ mission was to travel more than halfway around the world, surface on the U.S. coast, and launch their deadly air attack. This entire operation was unknown to U.S. intelligence. And the amazing thing is how close the Japanese came to pulling it off.

John Geoghegan’s meticulous research, including first-person accounts from the I-401 crew and the U.S. capturing party, creates a fascinating portrait of the Sen-toku‘s desperate push into Allied waters and the U.S. Navy’s dramatic pursuit, masterfully illuminating a previously forgotten story of the Pacific war.

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