31453 Tamiya - Submarine I-16 & 1-58  [31453]

A submarine element have been included between the escort team the Japanese Navy's historic attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII. Naval modelers has become capable replicate another an element of the Pearl Harbor assault force with this particular re-packaged model kit.

The Japanese Navy's bold arrange for a surprise assault within the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor required the employment of an enhanced Expeditionary Force consists of 20 fleet submarines. They certainly were primarily to offer a screen and minimize all of the any U.S. Navy force that experimented with reach japan carrier team. But 5 of those fleet submarines, I-16, I-18, I-20, I-22, and I-24, also carried 2-man Ko-hyoteki midget submarines tasked with penetrating the harbor defenses in order to make torpedo assaults. These midget submarines had been launched, but none ever returned from their missions.