The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction: Basic Concepts of Submarine Strategy and Tactics	1
1	Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy	8
2	Weapons, Equipment, Personnel, and Shore Support for the Submarine Force	36
3	War in the Pacific and Submarine Operations, 1937 to Mid-1942: Successes and Missed Opportunities	53
4	New Submarine Operational Patterns and New Devastation in the Second Half of 1942	92
5	The Attrition of War and Submarine Operations	113
6	Submarine Operations and Plans for the Decisive Battle, 1944	134
7	Submarine Operations Near the War's End	158
	App. 1 Imperial Japanese Navy Instructions for Submarine Warfare and the Decisive Battle	191
	App. 2 The Pearl Harbor Carrier Strike Force	196
	App. 3 Reconnaissance Operations with Submarine-Borne Aircraft, November 1941 through November 1942	198
	App. 4 Southern Expeditionary Main Force (Second Fleet)	200
	App. 5 Imperial Japanese Navy Task Force Organization (Guntai-Kubun) against Midway, the Aleutians, and Port Moresby	201
	App. 6 Sixth Fleet Submarines in the Eastern Solomons, Late 1942	203
	App. 7 Leadership of the Sixth Fleet, Mid-1943	204
	App. 8 Task Force Organization for Operation A-Go sakusen	206
	App. 9 Summary of Japanese Submarine Losses in World War II and the Surviving Submarines	208
	App. 10 Biographies of Key Members of the Imperial Japanese Navy Submarine Force	219
	Notes	227
	Bibliography	243
	Index	259