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I-400 Submarine
Details about the model:
Length: 25.0cm (9.8in)
Width: 2.7cm (1.1in)
Height: 4.6 cm (1.8in)
Scale: 1:485
Total parts: 193
About the ship's history:
The Japanese I-400-class submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three aircraft underwater to their destinations. They were designed to surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered.
I-400 was laid down on 18 January 1943, launched on the same date one year later and commissioned on 30 September 1944. Its first big mission was supposed to be a surprise attack on the Panama canal on 12 June 1945 together with other submarines, but due to the fall of Okinawa and the increasing pace of American airstrikes the mission was cancelled.
Its next mission was then to launch its planes which would then attack Ulithi, once more together with the same other submarines. I-400 departed for this mission on 23 July 1945 and was supposed to rendezvouz with the other submarines off Ponape on 16 August 1945. However, on 15 August 1945 Emperor Hirohito announced that hostilities between Japan and the Allies would end that day and on 18 August 1945 the submarines received orders to cancel the Ulithi attack.
I-400 Submarine
Details about the model:
Length: 25.0cm (9.8in)
Width: 2.7cm (1.1in)
Height: 4.6 cm (1.8in)
Scale: 1:485
Total parts: 193
About the ship's history:
The Japanese I-400-class submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three aircraft underwater to their destinations. They were designed to surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered.
I-400 was laid down on 18 January 1943, launched on the same date one year later and commissioned on 30 September 1944. Its first big mission was supposed to be a surprise attack on the Panama canal on 12 June 1945 together with other submarines, but due to the fall of Okinawa and the increasing pace of American airstrikes the mission was cancelled.
Its next mission was then to launch its planes which would then attack Ulithi, once more together with the same other submarines. I-400 departed for this mission on 23 July 1945 and was supposed to rendezvouz with the other submarines off Ponape on 16 August 1945. However, on 15 August 1945 Emperor Hirohito announced that hostilities between Japan and the Allies would end that day and on 18 August 1945 the submarines received orders to cancel the Ulithi attack.
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