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Re: US Submarines vis-a-vis U-Boats--Tonnage Sunk by US Subs
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Forest
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Date: December 10, 2005 03:00AM
It was the Shinano, begun as a sister ship to Yamato but completed as a carrier, that was the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine. Around 60,000 tons.
The 25,000-ton Shokaku was also sunk by an American submarine, at about the same moment the 29,000-ton Taiho was put under the by a different US submarine. That was the same day as the "Marianas Turkey Shoot", a fine day indeed in US Navy history.
USN subs also sank other Japanese carriers, a battleship, and many cruisers, destroyers, and submarines. The battleship was the IJN Kongo, which happened to be a British-built Japanese battleship. I think every battleship sunk by submarines during the war was British built, but I might be mistaken.
The 25,000-ton Shokaku was also sunk by an American submarine, at about the same moment the 29,000-ton Taiho was put under the by a different US submarine. That was the same day as the "Marianas Turkey Shoot", a fine day indeed in US Navy history.
USN subs also sank other Japanese carriers, a battleship, and many cruisers, destroyers, and submarines. The battleship was the IJN Kongo, which happened to be a British-built Japanese battleship. I think every battleship sunk by submarines during the war was British built, but I might be mistaken.
