I-70: The First Japanese Submarine Sunk in WW2

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[@garyrogers6761]

For your own benefit, re-read your scripts, you are going over the same material over and over again and it becomes annoying and detracts from what is otherwise quite a good effort ?

[@the1magageneral323]

The first Japanese ship sunk was a submarine during the Pearl Harbor attack.

[@brucelee3388]

Sunk BEFORE the air attack too.

[@johnfleet235]

@@brucelee3388 That was a midget sub. I think the US sank at least one other midget sub. I think the author is talking about the first full size sub to be sunk .

[@chrislong3938]

@@johnfleet235 I-70 was the first fleet sub... Of course, the debate about the midget sub sunk by the USS Ward at the mouth of PH raged until it was confirmed in 2002.

[@johnfleet235]

@@chrislong3938 I read a history of the search for the midget sub sunk by the USS Ward. Very interesting.

[@samthesaxman4487]

A sub is a sub. The. Authors of this video should point this out.

[@williamallencrowder361]

The Long Lance Torpedo was a true game changer in early to mid WWII

[@Otokichi786]

Not as much as the "runs too deep/doesn't explode/turns back to you" U.S. torpedoes until 1943.

[@thomaslinton5765]

Yet at the end, the game was not close.

[@ganndeber1621]

It didnt change the game

[@artsummers2095]

Good story, I was lucky and got to ride the USS Trutta SS 421. I was honored to work where those heroes worked. God bless all those that lost their lives in WW two

[@johnfleet235]

The sinking of the Japanese submarine 1-73 on 27 January 1942 by the US sub Gudgeon was more important. It was the first time a United States submarine in history to sink an enemy combatant ship. It would not be the last.

[@the1magageneral323]

The Japanese never adopted a good submarine warfare like the Wolfpack, or an effective convoy shipping system like other countries were doing.

[@mr.m1garand254]

Japanese had the best torpedo of the early war, and they completely misused their submarines

[@thomaslinton5765]

The first Japanese submarine sunk by the US was FAMOUSLY sunk on December 7, 1941, by USS Ward outside Pearl Harbor. Sloppy at best.

[@thomasrobinson182]

Yup.

[@jaydeister9305]

FOR DISTANCE'S SAKE: 1.) MIDWAY, possibly 1/2 across the pacific 2.) HAWAII, perhaps 2/3 across the pacifc 3.) 23ND STREET NAVSTA, SD, USA to YOKOSUKA, JAPAN might take one month of steaming underway

[@Andy-gs1sm]

Who charges batteries on the surface during daylight?

[@eugenecbell]

The desperate, the foolish, and the dammed. 😊

[@slehar]

Lack of radar. Big deficit.