I-Boat Captain: How Japan's Submarines Almost Defeated the U.S. Navy in the Pacific!

Pooling their resources, the best-selling author  Joseph D. Harrington, and Zenji Orita, a leading Japanese sub captain whose operations in World War II ranged over the entire Pacific and who launched the first "human torpedoes" against U.S. ships at Ulithi Atoll in 1944, now bring to the public I-Boat Captain, a naval history blockbuster that even before publication has forced our Department of the Navy to correct its own records!

In a meticulously detailed account, I-BOAT CAPTAIN tells how Japanese subs;

-Sent reconnaissance flights over Pearl Harbor long after the war began

-Could have made Midway a Japanese victory, had Japanese submariners been heeded

- Nearly turned the tide of war in Japan's favor three months after Midway

-Helped evacuate Kiska Island, leaving the US landing force to face - three stray dogs

-Sank Yorktown and Indianapolis

-Were designed to steam halfway around the world, then launch aircraft to bomb New York and Washington, DC

-Bombed Oregon and bombarded Santa Barbara

-Sent midget subs against Pearl Harbor and human torpedoes against the US in the war's final ten months....(from inside cover)