us navy submarines in the pacific world war 2

The Lexington was later sunk at the Battle of Coral Sea. His father was aboard the aircraft carrier Lexington, which was assigned to Pearl but was at sea during the attacks. Harris noted his enduring family ties to Pearl Harbor. Naval Base at Yokosuka, Japan, after the war. 'Our former enemies are now our close allies,' said Harris, the son of Navy Chief Petty Harry Harris, Sr., and a Japanese mother. Pacific Command (PaCom), in his remarks at the anniversary ceremonies at Pearl Harbor, but 'We began to walk the pathway of reconciliation on the Missouri,' the battleship on which the Japanese signed the surrender documents in Tokyo Bay in 1945. The overall destruction inflicted on Japan was noted by Adm. Navy submarines sank about 1,300 Japanese merchant ships and about 200 warships, including eight aircraft carriers, a battleship and 11 cruisers. subs would return again and again in the course of the war with a broom proudly fixed to the conning tower signifying a 'clean sweep' - every target engaged had been sunk. Chuichi Nagumo, commander of the Japanese First Air Fleet, that the enemy would come to regret. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander in chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and Adm. But it was the undamaged submarine base left out of the battle plans of Adm.

Us navy submarines in the pacific world war 2