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Japanese submarine I-58 (1943)

Index Japanese submarine I-58 (1943)

I-58 was a Japanese B3 type cruiser submarine that served in the final year of World War II. [1]

50 relations: Aparri, Apra Harbor, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Battle of Iwo Jima, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Cruiser submarine, Destroyer escort, Diesel engine, Dock landing ship, Escort carrier, Flank speed, Floatplane, Gotō Islands, Guam, Heavy cruiser, Hydrophone, Japan Standard Time, Kaiten, Kamikaze, Kure Naval District, Luzon, Mochitsura Hashimoto, Navy Unit Commendation, New Mexico-class battleship, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinotorishima, Operation Tan No. 2, Operation Ten-Go, Palau, San Francisco, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Scuttling, Seaplane tender, Seto Inland Sea, Sonar, Submarine snorkel, Surrender of Japan, Tinian, Torpedo tube, Twentieth Air Force, Type 95 torpedo, Type B submarine, Ulithi, United States Navy, USS Idaho (BB-42), World War II, Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yokosuka P1Y, 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun, 6th Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy).

Aparri

, officially the, is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Apra Harbor

Apra Harbor is a deep-water port on the western side of the United States territory of Guam.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

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Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing, which was flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.

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Cruiser submarine

A cruiser submarine is a very large submarine designed to remain at sea for extended periods in areas distant from base facilities.

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Destroyer escort

Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a warship designed with endurance to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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Dock landing ship

A dock landing ship (also called landing ship, dock or LSD) is an amphibious warfare ship with a well dock to transport and launch landing craft and amphibious vehicles.

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Escort carrier

The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (US hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and the United States Navy in World War II.

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Flank speed

Flank speed is a nautical term referring to a ship's true maximum speed, but it is not equivalent to the term full speed ahead.

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Floatplane

A floatplane (float plane or pontoon plane) is a type of seaplane, with one or more slender pontoons (known as "floats") mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy.

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Gotō Islands

The are Japanese islands in the East China Sea, off the western coast of Kyūshū.

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Guam

Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån) is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States in Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Heavy cruiser

The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches in caliber) of whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

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Hydrophone

A hydrophone (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ.

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Japan Standard Time

is the standard timezone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC (i.e. it is UTC+09:00).

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Kaiten

were manned torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.

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Kamikaze

, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with conventional air attacks.

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Kure Naval District

was the second of four main administrative districts of the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Mochitsura Hashimoto

was an academy-trained officer and a submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

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Navy Unit Commendation

The Navy Unit Commendation (NUC) is a United States Navy unit award that was established by order of the Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal on 18 December 1944.

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New Mexico-class battleship

The New Mexico-class battleships of the United States Navy, all three of whose construction began in 1915, were improvements on the design introduced three years earlier with the.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Okinotorishima

The is a Japanese uninhabited atoll with a total area of.

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Operation Tan No. 2

Operation Tan No.

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Operation Ten-Go

was a Japanese naval operation plan in 1945, consisting of four likely scenarios.

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Palau

Palau (historically Belau, Palaos, or Pelew), officially the Republic of Palau (Beluu er a Belau), is an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Sasebo, Nagasaki

is a core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

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Scuttling

Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.

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Seaplane tender

A seaplane tender is a boat or ship that supports the operation of seaplanes.

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Seto Inland Sea

The, also known as Setouchi or often shortened to Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, three of the four main islands of Japan.

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Sonar

Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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Submarine snorkel

A submarine snorkel is a device which allows a submarine to operate submerged while still taking in air from above the surface.

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Surrender of Japan

The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.

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Tinian

Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

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Torpedo tube

A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes.

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Twentieth Air Force

The Twentieth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) (20 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). It is headquartered at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. 20 AF's primary mission is Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) operations. The Twentieth Air Force commander is also the Commander, Task Force 214 (TF 214), which provides alert ICBMs to the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). Established on 4 April 1944 at Washington D.C, 20 AF was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force deployed to the Pacific Theater of World War II. Operating initially from bases in India and staging though bases in China, 20 AF conducted strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. It relocated to the Mariana Islands in late 1944, and continued the strategic bombardment campaign against Japan until the Japanese capitulation in August 1945. The 20 AF 509th Composite Group conducted the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. Deactivated on 1 March 1955, the command was reactivated 1 September 1991, as a component of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and became operationally responsible for all land-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.

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Type 95 torpedo

The Type 95 torpedo was a torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Type B submarine

The was a class of submarine in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) which served during World War II.

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Ulithi

Ulithi (Wulthiy, Yulthiy, or Wugöy) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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USS Idaho (BB-42)

USS Idaho (BB-42), a, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 43rd state.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yokosuka Naval Arsenal

was one of four principal naval shipyards owned and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was located at Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on Tokyo Bay, south of Yokohama.

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Yokosuka P1Y

The Yokosuka P1Y Ginga (銀河, "Galaxy") was a twin-engine, land-based bomber developed for the Japanese Imperial Navy in World War II.

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14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun

The 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun was the standard surface battery for Japanese submarine cruisers of World War II.

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6th Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)

The was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) that during World War II, had primary responsibility for the command of submarine operations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_I-58_(1943)

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