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Kaiten (回天, literal translation: "Turning the Heaven", commonly rendered as "turn of the Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker") were crewed torpedoes and...

Human torpedoes or manned torpedoes are a type of diver propulsion vehicle on which the diver rides, generally in a seated position behind a fairing....

gyrocompass was increased to 20,000 rpm for the Kaiten manned torpedo. The warhead of the Type 93 torpedo was 480 kg (1,060 lb) (the same as the 1-ton 410 mm...

the Pacific until her sinking in a suicide attack by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo on 24 July 1945. Samuel Jackson Underhill was born on 25 August...

came with a conventional torpedo attack upon USS Indianapolis on 30 July 1945. She was modified to carry Kaiten manned torpedoes, making several attacks...

be hit by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo. The ship sank with a loss of 63 hands as well as the kaiten pilot. Of the five kaiten sent against US ships...

November 1944, first to be hit by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo. USS Neches sunk 28 January 1942 by torpedo from Japanese submarine I-72 USS Neosho sunk...

being hit by a Japanese kaiten-manned torpedo. The ship exploded and sank with a loss of 63 crew members. Four other kaiten did not hit any other ships...

home waters for the rest of the war, she was modified to deliver Kaiten manned torpedoes in early 1945. Take was surrendered to the Allies at the end of...

Damaged or sunk by a kaiten manned torpedo USS Earl V. Johnson was damaged by the explosion from a near-miss of a kaiten manned-torpedo that was launched...

took command of I-58, a submarine which was equipped to carry kaiten manned torpedoes. After a number of unsuccessful operations, under the command of...

Koryu-class midget submarines, 250 Kairyu-class midget submarines, 1,000 Kaiten manned torpedoes, 800 Shinyo suicide boats Ground force commanders for Operation...

Home islands. The Kaiten (回天, variously translated as "Change the World", "Returning to Heaven" or "Heaven-shaker") was a torpedo modified as a suicide...

many as 19. Only one vessel, Take, was modified to launch a single kaiten manned torpedo from her stern, although there were plans to covert another 11 to...

USS Underhill – On 24 July the US destroyer escort was sunk by a Kaiten manned torpedo off Luzon. Of those aboard 112 were killed and 122 survived the...

later an explosion rocked the ship. Mazama had been struck by a Kaiten manned torpedo launched by Japanese submarine I-36. She developed a 2° list to...

230 ft (70 m). I-165 was modified in 1945, her gun removed and two Kaiten manned torpedo suicide attack craft substituted. None of the Kaidai Vs survived...

1944 was sunk near Ulithi Island after being hit by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo. USS Shabonee, a T3-S-A1 tanker, was sold to the US Navy and renamed...

pages 165-166. "USS Cythera". Retrieved 28 April 2012. "U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Operational Losses in World War II: Circumstances, Location and Date...

tanker Mississinewa was sunk off Ulithi, Micronesia by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo. Born: Louie Dampier, Hall of Fame basketball player, in Indianapolis...