On September 7, 1955, the U.S. Navy’s first midget submarine – USS X-1, or SS X-1 – was launched at Oyster Bay, Long Island. Archival footage of the launch, where the diminutive vessel can be seen ...
The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid of 7 December 1941. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl ...
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they did so with all kinds of aircraft and naval vessels. The daring attack also utilized five Japanese midget submarines — which, as the ...
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Germany's Midget U-Boats

For most of World War 2, Germany had enjoyed having the largest and most advanced fleet of submarines at its disposal. The fierce U-boat wolfpacks terrorized the Atlantic for months forcing the Allies ...
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NOVA announced today that a routine test dive in the waters near Pearl Harbor has uncovered a find that could rewrite the history of the Japanese attack on the U.S on December ...