Midget submarines attack

The submarine then fired its two torpedoes at the cruiser. Online, courtesy Library of Congress. Naval History and Heritage Command has an series of online images of the Pearl Harbor attack and the mini submarines. Beyond the use of the unreliable midgets, historians have identified areas in the plan of attack where the Japanese could have done significantly more damage. Connect with ABC News. New South Wales Heritage Office. Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour — reconstruction of events from Japanese and Australian sources by G Hermon Gill.

Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor , next on NOVA. On the morning of 8 June, I and I briefly bombarded Sydney and Newcastle. A horsepower electric motor propelled the midget subs swiftly under water at 19 knots, twice as fast as many other World War II submarines.