Japanese super subs

Just watched a documentary about these subs built during WW2, . . they could carry 3 aircraft in a watertight hangar, . . they were the precursors of todays tridents.

The Japanese had planned to bomb Americas west coat cities with millions of fleas infected with all sorts of nasties like anthrax and plague in the hope America would surrender . . they were a real nasty lot eh, . . they did not know Mr Roosevelt and the American people or the vastness of the USA, . .

Here's a link for you.

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sourc...53484c05009a1c

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Thing is though-they never made it.


`What if channels` annoy me .

The real history in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

What if the French had invaded Germany on September 4th 1939??

What if Harold decided a hill was a good place and didn`t go looking for trouble?

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They worked, . . the reason they never made it was that Admiral Yamamoto was killed in 1943 when his aircraft was shot down, . . the project was his brainchild, . . after his death the plans were shelved and later they made other plans for those subs to bomb the Panama canal but this was in 1945 and it was too late by then.

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But it`s all what if??


Yamamoto was shot down by P38s after a code was broken.

The Japanese lost the the the `war` at Midway

The evil treatment of POWs and the Chinese went on until they got nuked

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That's true OG, . . he was assassinated by America, . . . . the fleas were used in experiments in Manchuria where they killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese so they worked as well, . . "what if" is correct but it was possible if events had come about.

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The past is another country.

Tomorrow we can change

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Ah, . . but the key to the future is all in the past according to some.

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Yep-we have to learn from history-shame no goverment since I got to vote could grasp that view

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They're all as bad as each other imo!

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One of the biggest "what ifs" of that era. What if Sir Frank Whittle's jet engine had been developed and put into production in the late 1930s when it was first muted.