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None. Great Circle Mapper. Flight Planning & Aviation Weather at Baseops.Net. Ch2-4. Langley Technical Report Server. The Transpacific Voyage of the I-400. Los Angeles & Santa Barbara, California February 28th, 1984 Revised February 1991 This saga recounts my adventures during the last voyage of His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Sensuikan Toku (Special Submarines).

In 1945 I returned from World War II as Executive Officer and Navigator of the U.S. Navy prize crew in one of these aircraft-carrying giants: H.I.J.M.S. I-400. Sailing her from Sasebo, Occupied Japan, to Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, seemed a fitting finale to my career in the Submarine Service.