Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] magazine article

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>]

Oh man!  Look at all them mini subs, and leave it to the navy to destroy
them!  lol!  Seriously though, I'm glad they got them knocked out. 
Could have done a lot of damage to Anchorage, Juneau, Sitka and the
other AK seaports.  And I bet them sub were cold cold cold in that
region!  I ownder if they had heating?
Carl


Carsten Standfuß wrote:
> 
> Coalbunny schrieb:
> >
> > I vaguely recall what he's alking about.  There was a seaplane the Japs
> > had, and they could break it down and carry it on a sub.  They were the
> > only (to the best of my knowledge) military force to have ever made a
> > strike against the American mainland.  The plane went in to southern
> > Oregon (I think) and dropped a few 20 or 50 pound incendiary bombs in
> > the forest.  It then returned to the sub and left.  And so on and so
> > on.  I did a report on it back in Jr. High.  Good report, but didn't get
> > a good grade.  Some how people, even now, think (ot thought) that I was
> > full of BS when I tell of the Japs attacking the mainland.  Some people
> > don't even know that the Japs help a couple of small bases in the
> > Alutians during the early years of the war....
> > Carl
> 
> Hi -
> 
> The first link gets to the Japanese base on the Aleutians the others to
> Submarine aircraft carriers. Even the British has an underwater aircraft
> carrier.
> 
> http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s100000/s189261.jpg
> 
> http://formen.ign.com/news/29277.html
> 
> http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/wtour5799.htm
> 
> The Convair was the Convair XF 2Y "Sea Dart" a Delta wing jet able to
> start from
> the water surface - first flights about 1953..
> 
> http://www.vectorsite.net/avcmast.html
> 
> see you - Carsten
> 
> >
> > "Michael B. Holt" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Samuel Eisenberg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.skyhawk.org/aus_sub.htm
> > >
> > > Not even *I* would want to try that.  I gotta talk with
> > > someone who was there ...
> > >
> > > > Not Convair (I remember that Convair had some delta winged
> > > > plane that had water-ski things and could take off from the
> > > > water. There's one outside the aerospace museum in San Diego.
> > > > Anyone know more?), but the same idea. Air & Space had an
> > > > article on the Japanese folding airplane that launched from a
> > > > sub in WWII a couple of issues ago.
> > >
> > > Convair built a handful of screwball delta-wing jets
> > > in the early 50s.  The seaplane was the F-7 Sea Dart.
> > > It worked, sort of.  I have a book that has a chapter
> > > on it.
> > >
> > > Is that Air & Space article on line anywhere?  I'd
> > > like to know more about little Japanse planes.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> > --
> > "The plain meaning of the right of the people to keep arms is that it is
> > an individual, rather than a collective, right and is not limited to
> > keeping arms while engaged in active military service or as a member of
> > a select militia such as the National Guard." - U.S. vs. Emerson, 5th
> > Circuit Federal Court- published October 16, 2001

-- 
"The plain meaning of the right of the people to keep arms is that it is
an individual, rather than a collective, right and is not limited to
keeping arms while engaged in active military service or as a member of
a select militia such as the National Guard." - U.S. vs. Emerson, 5th
Circuit Federal Court- published October 16, 2001