FREDERICKSBURG, Texas - A 40-ton, 76-foot-long Japanese mini-submarine, one of five used in the attack on Pearl Harbor 68 years ago today, has a new permanent home at the expanded National Museum ...

In the Last Days of World War II, Japan Fielded a Fleet of Kamikaze Mini-Subs The Kairyu-class submarines were designed to protect the Japanese homeland from invasion. By Kyle Mizokami Published ...

Key point: Tokyo’s mini-subs often didn’t work as well as planned. Australia was situated considerably closer to the action in the Pacific than the United States during World War II. Japanese ...

On May 31, the mothership-submarines approached points six to eight miles from Sydney Harbor and launched mini-subs M-14, M-21, and M-24. Sydney’s harbor defenses included small patrol boats ...

By the end of WWII, the Japanese had produced hundreds of midget subs of various designs and intended to use them as a final weapon of war against the U.S.

The two submarines were among the most advanced of their time, but neither saw action in WWII. The U.S. captured the subs at war's end and sank them off Oahu after gleaning their scientific secrets.

THE WORLD : 2 WWII-era Japanese subs found : The U.S. had sunk the advanced vessels off Oahu after gleaning their scientific secrets. By Thomas H. Maugh II Nov. 13, 2009 12 AM PT ...

WASHOUGAL — When Bud Knapp looked at the front page of The Columbian on Dec. 7, he was shocked to see an archive photograph of a World War II Japanese submarine.

A rare glimpse of a mini submarine sunk by the U.S. Navy during the Pearl Harbor attack 75 years ago. ... sunk the sub in the first shots fired in World War II by U.S. forces that resulted in ...

This is three years after the Japanese midget submarines penetrated harbour defences in 1942 during World War II. Allied midget XE3 submarine in Sydney Harbour, 1945.

The anniversary of a World War II raid by Royal Navy midget submarines against a German battleship is to be marked at a loch in Assynt.