Commissioned in the early days of World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) I-19 submarine, classified as a Type B1 submarine, was a scourge of the seas for Allied forces fighting against ...

Conditions in the midget submarine were cramped, stuffy and uncomfortable. For 13 and a half hours, their journey went without any hitches so that by 12.30pm on July 31 their target was in sight.