Qualla: Japanese Submarine I-6 https://qualla.com/japanese-submarine-i-6 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Japanese Submarine I-6 https://qualla.com/japanese-submarine-i-6 Japanese Submarine I-6: Introduction https://qualla.com/japanese-submarine-i-6/ On the evening of June 16, 1944, the Japanese cargo ship Toyokawa Maru spotted a submarine surfacing near her convoy in the waters south of Japan. The crew sounded the alarm, turned hard, and rammed the vessel on her starboard side just behind the conning tower. Depth charges followed, then machine gun fire into the churning water. Every one of the 104 men aboard the submarine died. The ship they had sunk was I-6 -- one of Japan's own.

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/6/s/japanese-submarine-i-6-wp/876s-japanese-submarine-i-6-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Japanese Submarine I-6: The Submarine That Carried an Airplane https://qualla.com/japanese-submarine-i-6/ I-6 was unique in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Laid down at Kawasaki's shipyard in Kobe on October 14, 1932, and launched in March 1934, she was the sole Junsen II-type submarine ever built. What set her apart was an evolutionary step in naval aviation: while her predecessor I-5 h...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/6/s/japanese-submarine-i-6-wp/876s-japanese-submarine-i-6-the-tokyo-express-undersea.mp3 0:06 4 full Japanese Submarine I-6: The Bering Sea and Beyond https://qualla.com/japanese-submarine-i-6/ I-6's war took her to extremes of geography. After her New Guinea supply runs, she redeployed to the frigid North Pacific to support the evacuation of Kiska in the Aleutian Islands, patrolling the Bering Sea with her sister boat I-5. The garrison on Attu had already been annihila...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/6/s/japanese-submarine-i-6-wp/876s-japanese-submarine-i-6-the-bering-sea-and-beyond.mp3 0:06 5 full Japanese Submarine I-6: Killed by Friendly Fire https://qualla.com/japanese-submarine-i-6/ After an overhaul at Yokosuka, I-6 set out on June 16, 1944, bound for the waters off Saipan, where the American invasion of the Mariana Islands had just begun. She never arrived. That very evening, the armed cargo ship Toyokawa Maru -- part of a Japanese convoy returning from th...

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