Kaiten Group
"Kikusui"
Submarine I-36, I-37 and I-47
The Sortie on November 8, 1944
Crews of Submarine I-47
Kaiten pilots, Ensign Sato, Sub-lieutenant Nishina, Sub-lieutenant
Fukuda and Ensign Watanabe (From the left)
Farewell to send-off motor launch. (Sub-lieutenant Nishina, the
second man from the left)
All the crews stood at salute, waving their caps. (The vessel was
moving forward at very slow speed.)
A marine patrol plane from the base were
sending off the Submarine I-47, heading toward the Bungo
Channel.
The Submarine I-47 attacked the southern
part of the anchorage of enemy ships at the Ulithi Atoll on 20
November.
Sub-lieutenant Sekio Nishina (71st Naval Academy graduate),
Sub-lieutenant Hitoshi Fukuda (53rd Naval Engineering School
graduate), Ensign Akira Sato (Kyushu University, Dept. of Law),
Ensign Kozo Watanabe (Keio University, Dept. of Economics) died in
Kaiten mission.
Album left by Lieutenant Fujio
Kawai
Next (Kaiten Group
"Kongo", Submarine I-56, I-47 and I-36)