By late March, it was more than three weeks overdue to return, and the Navy listed the submarine as missing and presumed lost. After the war, the Navy tried to piece together a comprehensive history of the 52 submarines it had lost. The error went undetected until last year, when an amateur researcher, Yutaka Iwasaki, was going through the wartime records of the Imperial Japanese Navy base at Sasebo. And it did not match what was in the 1949 Navy history, not by a hundred miles. The Navy considers submarines like the Grayback to be “still on patrol.”As Moore did 75 years before, Taylor launched his mission to Okinawa this spring from Hawaii.

Source: bd News24 November 11, 2019 02:47 UTC