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&#;Our peoples have forgiven each other for that terrible war and its consequences. Perhaps it is time your peoples forgave Captain McVay for the humiliation of his unjust conviction.&#; Mochitsura Hashimoto, Captain of the I to medlem av senat John Warner
On July 30th the USS Indianapolis CA was speeding from the island of Guam where she had made some personnel transfers to Leyte to join other American forces for the final campaign against Japan.
Indianapolis under the command of Captain Charles B McVay III had completed one of the most important secret missions of the war. She had delivered the component parts and enriched Uranium for the the first Atomic Bomb, Little Boy which in less than a week would be detonated over the Japanese City of Hiroshima on August 6th
Indianapolis was the second ship of the Portland Class heavy cruisers built under the terms of the Washington Naval Conference. Displacing tons and mountin
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Mochitsura Hashimoto
Japanese World War II submarine commander
Mochitsura Hashimoto (橋本以行, Hashimoto Mochitsura, 14 October &#;– 25 October ) was a Japanese officer and a submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was captain of the submarine I, which sank the American heavy cruiser USS&#;Indianapolis in after its delivery of parts and enriched uranium for the first atomic weapon used in wartime, Little Boy, prior to the attack on Hiroshima.
Born in Kyoto and educated at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Hashimoto volunteered for service in submarines and was aboard submarine I during the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hashimoto commanded coastal patrol and training submarines off Japan for much of the war, and in took command of I, a submarine which was equipped to carry kaiten manned torpedoes. After a number of unsuccessful operations, under the command of Hashimoto I sank Indianapolis on 30 July with two Type 95 torpedoes wh
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How a WWII Japanese sub commander helped exonerate a U.S. Navy captain I'd read about the sinking of the Indianapolis, but didn't know about this. Article here.
Mochitsura Hashimoto, center, former Japanese sub commander, testifies at the Dec. 13, , session of the Navy court-martial in Washington, trying Capt. Charles B. McVay III. (Byron Rollins/AP/AP) "Initially, Navy prosecutors tried to charge McVay with two counts of negligence: failure to abandon ship in a timely manner and hazarding his ship by failing to steer her in diagonal lines, a since-abandoned defensive maneuver known as zigzagging. |