WWII Biological Weapon

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The below excerpt of a news story was copied from the Yahoo! News and is an Associated Press story.

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WWII Japanese Submarine Found Near Hawaii <o:p></o:p>


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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>HONOLULU - The wreckage of a large World War II-era Japanese submarine has been found by researchers in waters off Hawaii. <o:p></o:p>

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A research team from the University of Hawaii discovered the I-401 submarine Thursday during test dives off Oahu. <o:p></o:p>

"We thought it was rocks at first, it was so huge," said Terry Kerby, pilot of the research craft that found the vessel. "But the sides of it kept going up and up and up, three and four stories tall. It's a leviathan down there, a monster." <o:p></o:p>

The submarine is from the I-400 Sensuikan Toku class of subs, the largest built before the nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the 1960s. <o:p></o:p>

They were 400 feet long and nearly 40 feet high and could carry a crew of 144. The submarines were designed to carry three "fold-up" bombers that could be assembled for flight within minutes. <o:p></o:p>

Kerby said the main hull is sitting upright and is in good shape. The I-401 numbers are clearly visible on the sides, and the anti-aircraft guns are in almost perfect condition, he said. <o:p></o:p>

An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Their mission — which was never completed — reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities. :twitch: <o:p></o:p>

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Hessian

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Clive Cussler...

I am now reading his latest plot: Black Wind: beginning with 1944 Jap Sub attempt to launch a Bio attack on the west coast---he is a great writer for tangled and gripping plots.

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Railroad

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Hessian said:
I am now reading his latest plot: Black Wind: beginning with 1944 Jap Sub attempt to launch a Bio attack on the west coast---he is a great writer for tangled and gripping plots.

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I'm WITH ya! I like Mr. Cussler's books, too.
 

sleuth

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Hessian said:
I am now reading his latest plot: Black Wind: beginning with 1944 Jap Sub attempt to launch a Bio attack on the west coast---he is a great writer for tangled and gripping plots.

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Not much of a writer in terms of use of the language... but you're right, he does create gripping plots. I wonder if he based his book directly off the incidents in this story. :confused:

I was listening to the "Hearts in Atlantis" audiobook - which is :yay: :yay: by the way, I love the way Stephen King reads it - and the character Ted talks about there being 2 kinds of great writing.

One he says are those books whose authors write great but don't invent great plots.
The other type are those books whose authors invent great plots but don't write great.
Sometimes, he said, you find those special books, with great writers and great plots. The example in the book was "Lord of the Flies" and "Of Mice and Men".

Anyway, I enjoy Cussler for his junk science-fiction and believable plots. :yay:
 
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Bruzilla

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The Japanese did launch these attacks on China before WWII, but they didn't work. Once the fleas became infected with the plague their feeding would slow down, and by the time they were dropped over China they weren't biting many people.
 
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