Would be hard to land on Subic side for fixed wing. But I've launched and recovered many a RW aircraft from pierside at Subic.
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That "old boat" as she is today...images of the Kaga from the NOAA work at Midway. Looks like she broke apart as she went down.
One of the most mysterious accidents in US Navy history - USS Scorpion (SSN-589) - lost at sea around 22 May 1968. PBS's NOVA television show did a special on it many years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)
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Before Elon Musk, before Jeff Bezos, there was Howard Hughes. One of the greatest exploits of US intel, The Glomar Explorer and the salvage of parts of the Soviet submarine K-129.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
Speaking of submarines, there are the Japanese miniature subs of WW2. 2 torpedo tubes allowed a good punch. One of these torpedoes hit USS West Virginia at Pearl, another hit and severely damaged the British battleship HMS Ramillies in May 1942.
Some 80 Japanese miniature subs in drydock at the end of WW2.
The HA-19 after the attack on Pearl Harbor
We actually caught one on an uncharted Pacific Island, but the SWO - who had recently failed height/weight standards - was unable to fit inside for the 3 hour tour back to Hawaii.
Some 80 Japanese miniature subs in drydock at the end of WW2.
The HA-19 after the attack on Pearl Harbor
We actually caught one on an uncharted Pacific Island, but the SWO - who had recently failed height/weight standards - was unable to fit inside for the 3 hour tour back to Hawaii.
Source? I thought salvage reports showed that damage to WV and OK was caused by aerial torps and that while a dud min-sub torp was found after the attack in the loch it hadn't hit anything. It's know that two of the mini subs made it into pearl but I don't think they've ever been given credit for a hit.
Competing wikipedia entries....so who knows...
Photographic analysis conducted by the United States Naval Institute in 1999 indicated that one of the five Ko-hyoteki-class submarines managed to enter Pearl Harbor, and successfully fired a torpedo into USS West Virginia. On 29 May 1942, one of two midget submarines managed to enter the Diego Suarez harbor and fire two torpedoes. One torpedo seriously damaged the battleship HMS Ramillies, while the second sank the oil tanker British Loyalty (6,993 tons).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midget_submarine
Roger. What I read was that the strongest case was for a mini sub having torpedoed OK. The Wikipedia article on the Type A mini sub says that while it appears that the mini subs inside pearl did fire their torpedos none hit a US ship. Lots of nerdy talk about folks counting torp wakes and splashes during the initial attack but nothing definitive and all the after action analysis on raised ships seems to inidicate all the damage was consistent with aerial torps (albeit a lot of them).
Norman Polmar wrote a good book about the Glomar Explorer/K-129 project a few years back.
Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129
http://i-16tou.com/
In case you need to waste a few hours on mini sub nerdery. The site was developed by the group that found I-16tou in 2009. Their analyses have shown possible Type 97 torp hits on USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma but no conclusive evidence.
In case you need to waste a few hours on mini sub nerdery. The site was developed by the group that found I-16tou in 2009. Their analyses have shown possible Type 97 torp hits on USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma but no conclusive evidence.
Also a good documentary.
That looks like a good read. Hope to get to it one day.
The nerd is strong in this one - that I can respect.
