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RE: midget subs

Posted by: Forest ()

Date: October 15, 2000 06:24PM

Hi Don.

Sorry for the slow response, but I did not see your post until today. I have not been to Pearl Harbor. I believe they have the Type A Midget Ha-19 on display there. They may well have other things, perhaps a Kaiten or Kairyu. The Type A is, of course, not a suicide boat, but instead had two small torpedoes (modified aerial torpedoes) to launch at targets. Japan also built manned torpedoes (Kaiten), and the Kairyu midget submarines that carried either 2 torpedoes or, more often, a warhead for suicide attacks. Only the Type A was used at Pearl Harbor, of course. About how large was the vessel you saw? Did it have two protrusions at the front? The Type A had two 45cm torpedoes, one over the other, sticking out of the bow. I prepared some web pages for Nihon Kaigun on these midgets, but they are not posted up there yet. I could e-mail some pictures, if you'd like.

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Forest Wrote:
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> Hi Don.
> 
> Sorry for the slow response, but I did not see
> your post until today.  I have not been to Pearl
> Harbor.  I believe they have the Type A Midget
> Ha-19 on display there.  They may well have other
> things, perhaps a Kaiten or Kairyu.  The Type A
> is, of course, not a suicide boat, but instead had
> two small torpedoes (modified aerial torpedoes) to
> launch at targets.  Japan also built manned
> torpedoes (Kaiten), and the Kairyu midget
> submarines that carried either 2 torpedoes or,
> more often, a warhead for suicide attacks.  Only
> the Type A was used at Pearl Harbor, of course.
> About how large was the vessel you saw?  Did it
> have two protrusions at the front?  The Type A had
> two 45cm torpedoes, one over the other, sticking
> out of the bow.  I prepared some web pages for
> Nihon Kaigun on these midgets, but they are not
> posted up there yet.  I could e-mail some
> pictures, if you'd like.
>