Midget submarines

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113 submarines Type D in a bombed out dry dock in Kure Japan

Conning tower of Japanese 2 Man Type A Kō-hyōteki class raised at Pearl Harbor

Conning tower of Japanese 2 Man submarine raised at Pearl Harbor

Crew of the submarine rescue vessel USS Ortolan ASR-5 standing on the hull of Japanese midget submarine Ha-8 which they raised just off the coast of Guadalcanal 1943

Crew of the USS Ortolan ASR-5 standing on the hull of Japanese midget submarine Ha-8 which they raised just off the coast of Guadalcanal, May 1943

Japanese midget submarine Ha-19 Oahu beach 4

Japanese two man submarine Ha-19 at Mare Island Sept 1942

Japanese two man submarine (Type A Kō-hyōteki class) Ha-19 at Mare Island September 1942

Japanese Type A midget submarine Ha-19 Oahu beach 3

Japanese Type A midget submarine Ha-19 Oahu beach 5

Japanese Type A midget submarines - Alaska August 1943

Kairyu class submarine at the Yokosuka Naval Base - 7 September 1945

Kairyu Type at the Yokosuka Naval Base September 1945

Kairyu Type midget submarines at the Yokosuka Naval Base September 1945 2

Kairyu Type at the Yokosuka Naval Base September 1945 2

Kairyu Type submarine outside its cave hideaway in a Japanese coastal hillside Sept 1945

Kairyu Type outside its cave hideaway in a Japanese coastal hillside September 1945

Kairyū-class submarine midget submarine nr 2000 View inside the tail section 1945

Midget submarine Type D, engine room looking forward 1945

Midget submarine Type D (Kōryū class), engine room looking forward 1945

Midget submarine Type D torpedo room 1945

Salvaged Japanese Type A midget submarine – Guadalcanal

Salvaged Japanese Type A Kō-hyōteki class midget submarine Guadalcanal

Seabees raise midget submarine Type A Kai scuttled off Guadalcanal 1944

Small transport submarines Ha-102 Ha-104 and Ha-101 Yokosuka Naval Base - 7 September 1945

Type A Kō-hyōteki class midget submarine at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in December 1941

Type A Kō-hyōteki class Ha-19 Oahu beach

Type A Kō-hyōteki class submarine Ha-19 Oahu beach

Type A midget submarine Ha-19 Oahu beach 2

Type D submarine control room looking forward 1945

Type D control room looking forward 1945

Type D in a drydock at Kure Naval Base - 19 October 1945

Type D midget submarines in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard Nagasaki 1945

Type D in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard Nagasaki 1945

Type D in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard Nagasaki Sept 1945 2

Type D in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard Nagasaki September 1945 2

Type D on the ways at the Yokosuka Naval Base 8 September 1945 2

Type D midget submarine on the ways at the Yokosuka Naval Base 8 September 1945 2

Type D submarine on the ways at the Yokosuka Naval Base September 1945

Type D on the ways at the Yokosuka Naval Base September 1945

Type D on the ways at the Yokosuka Naval Base- 8 September 1945 3

Wreckage of Japanese 2 man Type A Kō-hyōteki-class submarine which was rammed by destroyer USS Monaghan

The Japanese midget submarines in World War II Bibliography: Paul Kemp - Midget Submarines of the Second World War Axis Midget Submarines 1939-1945 - Osprey New Vanguard 212 Mark Stille - Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45, Osprey New Vanguard 135 Carl Boyd, Akihiko Yoshida - The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II Dorr Carpenter, Norman Polmar - Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1904-1945 Peter Grose - A Very Rude Awakening - the Night the Japanese Midget Subs Came to Sydney IJN Submarine Vol.1 - Warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy Photo File 19 IJN Submarine Vol.2 - Warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy Photo File 20 Steven J. Zaloga - Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944–45, Osprey New Vanguard 180