Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Guess what we found....

Okay, not we as in me and someone I know.

This is definitely cool. If you like military history, it is almost as cool as the rice paper balloon bombs they were trying to drop on us.

The article states:
"They were 400 feet long and nearly 40 feet high and could carry a crew of 144. The submarines were designed to carry three "fold-up" bombers that could quickly be assembled. "

"An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Their mission, which was never completed, reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities. "

That would make them submersible air craft carriers. I wonder how they launched the planes?

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