Viewing a thread

You are logged in as a guest. ( logon | register )

At random: A typical modern submarine may require as many as 2,000 working drawings for the more than 7,000,000 items used in its construction. Blueprints from these drawings if placed end to end would make a strip 250 miles long.

12-9/10 history/incidents Moderators: Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page]
Forums-> Submarine Discussion	Message format

fortyrod

Posted 2017-12-09 4:20 AM (#86912)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 851

Subject: 12-9/10 history/incidents

12-9-1941 USS Swordfish SS193 makes the initial submarine attack on Japanese shipping.
http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-triumph-and-loss-of-uss-swordfish-ss-193/

12-10-1941 Guam surrenders to Japanese

12-10-41 Aircraft from the USS Enterprise CV-6 attack and sink Japanese submarine I70. The first Japanese combatant ship sunk in ww2
http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/12/sinking-the-i-70/

1979 The first Poseidon class submarine USS Francis Scott Key SSBN 657 configured with trident missiles completes it's first patrol.

1982 USS Ohio SSBN 726 the first Trident class submarine completes it's first patrol

Dantini

Posted 2017-12-09 7:07 AM (#86914 - in reply to #86912)

Senior Crew

Posts: 130

Location: Kennewick, Washington

Subject: RE: 12-9/10 history/incidents

The destroyer USS Ward shot at, depth charged, and sank a Japanese midget submarine off the mouth of Pearl Harbor about an hour before the aerial attack on Battleship row. 12/7/1941.

Jump to page : 1
Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page]

Printer friendly version
E-mail a link to this thread
Jump to forum :

(Delete all cookies set by this site)
Running MegaBBS ASP Forum Software v2.0 © 2003 PD9 Software