Continued from the Combined Fleet.com site, which gave a day by day account to the I-70. This is continued from March and April 2013 blog entries. Just hit the I-70 label for the rest of it.
Japanese submarines regularly surfaced at night and maintained periscope depth during the day. During the attack on pearl harbor, these subs were under orders to retrieve midget submarines and pilots, but none did.
If Dickinson had not destroyed the I-70, he was watching from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise the next day as a destroyer depth charged a submarine that appeared suddenly in the carrier's wake.
He wrote: "The two vessels were practically touching as they passed; and that was when the destroyer's depth charges were going over into the water; not one at a time and spaced, but six or more closely grouped. We could feel shocks. We saw that water rise as if right below there was an active volcano."
--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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