The discovery of the I-52 in over 17,000 feet of water on May 2, 1995 is the culmination of a five year research effort by Paul Tidwell. The I-52 was a cargo carrying submarine enroute from the Kure Naval Yard in Japan to German occupied France. This specially designed submarine was to play a very important role in the commerce of strategic materials and technologies between the Axis nations. The Allied intelligence network intercepted and decoded messages revealing that the I-52 was carrying two tons of gold to purchase German optical technologies. In response, a carrier task force was dispatched from Norfolk with orders to engage and sink the I-52.
On the night of June 23, 1944 the I-52 rendezvoused as planned with the German U-530 in the mid-Atlantic. Later on that night, torpedo carrying planes from the USS Bogue engaged the I-52 in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Although the U- boat escaped, the I-52 with her precious cargo of gold would not be seen again for over fifty years.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Sea Skimmer wrote:Yes this is certainly recent news...
Not to me, I was looking through a pile of National Geographics I got when
the Library was throwing out and read it. The issue is from 2000 I believe,
and has some very impressive pictures of the I-52
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
MKSheppard wrote:
Not to me, I was looking through a pile of National Geographics I got when
the Library was throwing out and read it. The issue is from 2000 I believe,
and has some very impressive pictures of the I-52
I've seen it, that issue is somewhere under my bed at the moment.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
