2 man subs

[Horch]

This is a dry dock in Kure,Japan. It had about 59 2 man subs on top of one another. US troops flooded it in Feb. 1946.

[Wustenfuchs]

Dang!! Great pic Horch!

[Tom Houlihan]

I wonder if they're still there?

[Jim O]

Fantastic photo Horch!

Thanks for posting it.

[Wustenfuchs]

Originally Posted by Tom Houlihan

I wonder if they're still there?

Wow, that's a real good question! What a find that would be.

[Horch]

I would kind of doubt that their still there. Probably used for scrap metal etc. Hopefully some might have ended up in a museum somewhere. My Dad had told me how a one man sub washed up on shore. Evidently some guys were welded in
with some food and water and set adrift waiting for a target of 'opportunity'. They cut the sub open and I guess it was one heck of a smell!

[Geek44]

Two of these subs raided Sydney Harbour sinking ships and killing civilians. One of the wrecks was found last year with its crew still inside. The site is now a war grave and relatives of the crew were invited to attend the state funeral held for them.

[Wustenfuchs]

Originally Posted by Geek44

The site is now a war grave and relatives of the crew were invited to attend the state funeral held for them.

That was an honorable thing to do, kinda restores my faith in humanity.

[Geek44]

Yeah...every now and then something will make you feel less disappointed. It gratified me too because there's still some stupid and rather pathetic anti-Japanese feeling in this country. It seems to me that events that occurred 60+ years ago should be let go. My feeling is that the funeral for the submariners is something our previous government wouldn't have provided. I also believe our own behaviour internationally and domestically lately doesn't give us any right to the 'moral high ground'. Typically, there are loud denials of the existence of aboriginal massacre sites in my own state. It's no surprise that indigenous Australians are largely gone from our southern states where the majority of the white population is...but I digress. I don't wish to open that can of worms here.
Peace.

[Wustenfuchs]

Right after the Pearl Harbor attack the Japanese dead (55 airmen 9 submariners) were buried in a segregated cemetery. An American woman placed flowers at the gravesite and came under attack for doing so. Her response was to point out the fact that every man there had a grieving mother somewhere.