Operation Road's End - The sinking of captured Japanese 潜特型潜水艦, Sen-Toku-gata sensuikan Class Super-Submarines, Sasebo, Japan (1946)
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1 April 1946: “Operation “Road’s End”:
Twenty-four IJN submarines capable of sailing under their own power and manned by skeleton Japanese crews left Sasebo and were assembled at “Point Deep Six”.
There, they are sunk near the 100 fathom line, either by demolition charges or by gunfire from submarine tender USS NEREUS (AS-17) and destroyer USS EVERETT F. LARSON (DD-830).
Twenty-four IJN submarines capable of sailing under their own power and manned by skeleton Japanese crews left Sasebo and were assembled at “Point Deep Six”.
There, they are sunk near the 100 fathom line, either by demolition charges or by gunfire from submarine tender USS NEREUS (AS-17) and destroyer USS EVERETT F. LARSON (DD-830).