Operation Storm
Subtitle: Japan's top secret submarines and its plan to change the course of World War II
By: John J. Geoghegan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780307464804
Subjects: Submarine; World War, 1939-1945; Naval operations; Submarine warfare; Japanese Naval operations; History
Description: Discusses the top-secret Japanese submarine project in World War II, creating submarines designed to work as underwater aircraft carriers, and the planned attack on U.S. cities that could have changed the outcome of the war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-460) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Face-off ; The I-401; title: Preparation. Birth ; Nambu ; Underwater aircraft carriers ; Proof of concept ; Challenges; title: Complications. Reduction and revival ; Nambu under fire ; Nambu becomes a mole ; Seiran takes flight ; The Panama Canal ; Ariizumi ; Ariizumi under fire; title: The Segundo (SS 398) ; Decline; title: Mission. Nambu and the I-401 ; The 631st ; Fulp on patrol ; Kure ; Adversity ; Attacking the Canal ; Green light ; Fulp's last patrol ; Nanao Bay ; The taste of persimmon ; Johnson takes command ; Operation Storm; title: Race against time. Departure ; Under way ; Crossed wires ; The Emperor's voice ; Anarchy ; Escape ; Interception ; Spoils of war ; Reckoning ; Boarding party ; The tenth war god ; Bittersweet ; Freedom ; The long road home ; Rediscovery.