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Sunk: the Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945
Sunk: the Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945
By Mochitsura Hashimoto
Holt, 1954, 276 pp.

One of the few surviving commanders of Japan's submarine fleet, which was virtually wiped out by the end of the war, attempts to explain this disastrous outcome and the generally unsatisfactory performance of the submarine arm.