page_title: 8th Submarine Squadron (Imperial Japanese Navy)
section_title: 1943
hierarchical_section_title: 8th Submarine Squadron (Imperial Japanese Navy) / Operations / 1943
caption_attribution_description: English: The crew of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-29 before disembarking in Sabang, Sumatra, then under Japanese occupation, on 6 May 1943, Earlier, the submarine had rendezvoused with the Kriegsmarine German submarine U-180, 300 sm southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. During the rendezvous, Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose, shown here sitting on the left in the front row (with glasses and hat), was transferred.
context_page_description: The 8th Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was based at Swettenham Pier, Penang, Malaya, until late 1944 during World War II. Its mission was to disrupt Allied supply lines in aid of Nazi Germany.
context_section_description: In 1943 a further 120,000 tons of shipping was sunk in the first four months of the year. I-29 under T. Kinashi rendezvoused with U-180 400 miles SSW of Madagascar. U-180 brought Chandra Bose from Germany. I-29 then took Bose to Sumatra. Bose was to become responsible for the Indian National Army. The Army had set up a school in Penang under Captain Mahmood Khan Durrani for training Indian agents who were in turn landed in India by the squadron's submarines.
  On July 6 I-8 under Captain Shinji Uchino sailed from Penang to Brest, Germany, with the crew for the German-made RO 501. This was a 1,120-ton Type IXC U-boat. RO-501 was sunk in the Atlantic by the destroyer USS Francis M. Robinson on May 13, 1944. It never reached Japanese territory. On its return voyage in September or October, I-8 was attacked by Allied aircraft off the west coast of Africa but sustained no damage. Leaving Singapore in December, she reached Japan safely and returned to Penang in early 1944 with a new commander, Tatsunosuke Ariizumo.
  On August 28 the first German U-boat, U-178, arrived at Penang. I-34 was sunk in the approach to Penang on November 13 by the submarine HMS Taurus. I-34 was salvaged in 1961 by the Great Eastern Salvage Company and the remains of her crew cremated in a specially created shrine in Penang Bay. The bell of the I-34 was placed in the Mariners Club in Penang.
  I-29 left for Europe in November. Arriving off the Spanish coast on March 10, 1944, she and her escort of four torpedo boats and eight Junkers Ju 88s came under attack from Allied Coastal Command Mosquitoes and Liberator bombers. She survived the attack and arrived in Bourdeaux. She was sunk on her return journey in the Bashi Channel of the south coast of Taiwan on July 26 by the submarine USS Swordfish.
  I-27 patrolled the Arabian Sea from September to December.
caption: Crew of I-29
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