The japanese push are underneath the command from Buttocks-Admiral Ishizaki together with his flag within the We-1O, a giant submarine regarding 2 919 plenty has just finished in 1941 and you can holding a reconnaissance aircraft. She was with We-31, an equivalent and more modern ship off 2 589 plenty and you may around three dos 000 flood ships, I-sixteen, I-18 and that i-20 for every single carrying a midget submarine to your their after patio.

Most of the three ‘mother’ submarines got system trouble into the a lot of time passing across the Indian Sea and only a couple was able to come to the fresh new rendezvous section from the northern tip out of Madagascar. Continue reading →