Fate of I-15 in 1942. Which source is correct?
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>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 13:01:42 -0500
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>On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Bowden Russell wrote:
>
> > Now I’m reading “The Japanese Submarine Force of World War Two”
> > by Carl Boyd and Akihiko Yoshida and in the back of the book they
> > list the fate of each and every Japanese submarine. They choose
> > to list the I-15 as “lost south of Guadacanal sometime after
> > November 3rd, 1942″ and give the impression this boat was lost
> > without explanation. This book was written in 1995.
> >
> > Whom am I to believe? I find it hard to believe that the authors
> > of the latter book didn’t know about O’Kane’s claim that the
> > Wahoo had sunk the I-15 off of Bougainville ( since O’Kanes
> > book was written 8 years before the Submarine book was ) so
> > do they have reason to doubt O’kane’s claim?
>
>As the Japanese are involved in a general re-writing of their history in
>general in order to downplay such things as the general rape and pillage of
>Manchuria and China, the infamous “Bataan Death March” and the conditions in
>POW and civilian camps and the treatment of their occupants, the use of
>enslaved Korean and Chinese “Comfort Girls”, etc., etc., why should we be
>surprised at a little specific re-writing of naval history.
>
>I’m not making any of this up. Anyone who has access to the new history
>books passed out in Japanese primary and secondary schools would find them a
>very interesting read based on some exceedingly unique viewpoints.
>
>Regards,
>
>James
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