Hey again everyone, thought I would share a tiny bit of WW2 history that happened over my home town of Hobart Tasmania.
I-25 was launched in 1941 and was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Meiji Tagami. Took part on the raid of pearl harbor and also attacked the mainland of the USA.
But about her 2nd war patrol the one in question I-25 was ordered to reconnaissance the Eastern coast of Australia. After doing all of the mainland state capitals bar Melboure she finally arrived in Tasmanian waters late Feb 41 she first surfaced off a northern Island called King Island, and did a fly over of Melbourne over Port Phillip Bay which is a return flight of 520kms**. She then proceeded down the eastern coast of Tasmania and again stopped and surfaced @ Adventure bay on Burny Island March 1st 41 at 4:50am. Assembled the E14Y float recon plane and as dawn arrived at Hobart that day the plane fly over Hobart and over the main port and up the Derwent river. The AA battery @ the Zinc works opened fire but no hits were taken. They flew back to the Submarine and by 9:00am were on their way to recon and patrol the waters of New Zealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_I-25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_B1_submarine AKA the I-25 type.
Hope you enjoyed your tiny history lesson today everyone
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