Scubamans Travels

The I-169 was one of the 3 largest submarines ever built at that time. It was built at the Mitsubish Kobe shipyards and launched  February 14 1934 it had a length of 331 feet and a 27 x 13 foot beam dimension, with six 21 inch torpedo tubes four in the bow and 2 a-stern, operating rang of [...]

There were over 2,400 betty’s built during the war. The Betty bomber’s main problems were no pilot armor and the fuel tanks mounted on the wings were not self sealing this made the Betty venerable to fighter attacks.   The problems with the wing tanks was so bad  that US pilots nicknamed the Betty the “Flying Lighter”. The Kawanishi HK 1 [...]