WWII Japanese I-400 Class Submarine

[RyanSC]

Cool article about the 400ft long Japanese Sentoku type sub that we deliberately sank off the coast of Hawaii after WWII.
I was aware of the late war production Type XXI "Elektroboote" subs the Germans produced, with only two ever seeing wartime service. I believe they were sunk off the coast of Ireland postwar after their crews surrendered, but have never read anything on this massive Japanese type that is double the size of the German XXI.
The X-400 could store and catapult launch up to 3x Aichi M6A aircraft specifically designed to attack the US.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-submarine-big-hangar-room-three-BOMBERS.html

 

[TLDR20]

Cool

 

[BloodStripe]

Would be a cool sub to have been able to tour. A shame it was sunk.

 

[AWP]

A few Type XXI's are around, but only one survives; the others are dive sites for very experienced divers. Only one Type XXIII has been located, U-2359. Three Type XXI's survived the war in a partially demolished bunker...before the bunker was filled with gravel and covered over with a parking lot. Nicely done, German gov't.... Assholes.

Wiki, but with some good links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_XXI_submarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_XXIII_submarine
U2359 webpage with video:
http://www.u2359.com/?p=733
One of the best U-boat source on the web:
http://www.uboat.net/

 

[BloodStripe]

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19630308000

Only surviving plane left. The "new" Air and Space Museum has been on my list of places to visit for a while. Now that I'm less than 3 hours away I can finally check it off some weekend soon hopefully.