View of captured Japanese submarine I-401 during Operation Road's End. The boat is sunk as a target off Barber's Point, Oahu, Hawaii, on 31 May 1946. Closeup view of the I-401. Next, it is seen at some distance from the U.S. submarine, USS Trumpetfish (SS-425), as it moves away from the I-401. The Trumpetfish (unseen) fires two torpedoes, in succession, as it proceeds. The first strikes the I-401 just aft of the conning tower. A little later, the second strikes amidships. The I-401 is seen sinking, stern first.
Activities of population in Hawaii during World War 2. Sailor walking on sidewalk. Bomb shelters erected in empty lots. Japanese writings on the window of a shop. A gas alarm bell. A sign at Kuhio school reads "Air Raid Shelter". Children walk out from the school in lines. Workers build bomb shelters in the background. Dirt piled up over the top of a shelter. A view of rugged coastline of Oahu. Children leaving a school building. Vacant fields. Palm trees in the foreground. Hilly terrain in the background. View of a hotel.
Signboard at the entrance of an office 'Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu' in Honolulu, Hawaii. Trunk and branches of a palm tree. Workers and merchants at a sidewalk restaurant. Tall grass waves in breeze at a field and white clouds in the sky over the field. A sign board 'Z Uruu' with Japanese font written under it. The Diamond Head at the Oahu Beach. A house with a large yard surrounded by trees. A hotel written with Japanese words and cars parked outside. Japanese people pass by the hotel. Signboard 'Morita Shoten' and Japanese font written below it hangs on a shop. Views of the Mokuaekaua Church, in Kailua-Kona, the oldest Christian church in the Hawaiian Islands.
Sailors drinking beer at a bar. A woman tends the bar. Liquor bottles in the rack behind her. U.S. fighter planes in formation. Large number of U.S. B-18, Bolo bombers parked on an airfield. Pedestrians walk on sidewalks. Two sailors walk on talking to each other. High tide in sea surf rolls over the beach on the coastline of Oahu. A burned Japanese fighter plane on the beach area, surf rolls over the parts of the wreckage. 'Rising Sun' insignia on part of the aircraft and its tail section.
Lieutenant General Robert C Richardson,Coast Guard Central Pacific area, along with other officers and businessmen watch soldiers go through infiltration course in Oahu,Hawaii. Soldiers creep under barbed wires while live ammunition is fired. (World War II period).
Sinking of Japanese submarines during Operation Road's End in the Pacific Ocean after World War II. Japanese submarine I-400 (I-400, boat 5231) on the surface , off Barber's Point, Oahu, Hawaii. In a test of the Mark 10-3 exploder, the I-400 is seen being struck by three Mark 18-2 electric torpedoes fired from the USS Trumpetfish (SS-425). The torpedoes explode in rapid succession, raising columns of white spray and smoke.
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