It was one of the 12 submarines present in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered, ending WWII.
This is a watertight door. If you can't fit through it, you can't go on board the sub.
For obvious reasons.
The submarine is actually really small, so the tour was shortish. But exciting. I'd never been on a sub before. Neither had the boys.
I'm glad they put the nets up to keep us from falling in the river!
Climbing down...
Both ends of the submarine had torpedo launch bays like this.
Torpedoes and bunks.
This is the combat flag for the ship.
There is a mark for each enemy ship that they blew up. And there are marks for the five US aircraft pilots that they rescued from the water.
Connor at the controls!
More bunks. These ones have new bedding on them because boy scout troops can spend the night on board.
The kitchen. Two men worked in here together during the day. Another one took the night shift. It's so tiny! They served four meals a day.
The mess "hall" was these two tables.
One of the stories that blew Connor's mind was that the sailors would just put a layer of large canned goods along the floor of the sub. Everywhere. They would just walk on top of the cans. And as they were on their mission out at sea, they would eat the food from the cans. Once they got to the floor, they had no more food left. So if the floor looked like this, they were in trouble.
Climbing out at the other end of the sub!
Now the boys and I have toured both a WWII submarine and a WWII battleship. For as big as the battleship was, the submarine was tiny!
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