From CombineFleet.com "HIJMS Submarine I-70: Tabular Record of Movement" by Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp.
This being a followup to Dickinson sinking the I-70.
25 Jan 1933-- Laid down at Sasebo Navy Yard, Japan.
14 June 1934-- launched
14 June 1935-- completed
30 March 1941-- became flagship of SubDiv12.
12 May 1941-- the I-69 collides with I-70, damaging the I-70 badly with a long gash on starboard tanks.
15 May 1941-- SubDiv12 flag transferred to I-68.
November 1941 "Operation Z" brief for Pearl Harbor attack on light cruiser Katori.
11 November 1941-- departed Saeki with I-68.
GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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