what is the history behind I-6?

[jiajia1]

I like to explore the stories behind every ship. as enjoyable as playing the game. this game shows many clues to the real history. but most useful sites are not visitable from china, pitty.

when exploring the ships, I found this SS (J2 class) has fp cap 1 but did not find AIR GROUP at present nor in reinforcement.

is there any stories with I-6? is it a real need to transfer a small air group to this SS?

[Platoonist]

The combined fleet site has this short biography on the I-6 if it would be of any use. Apparently, she was the only Type J2 built.

Authorized in the "First Replenishment Program" of 1931, the Type J2 was similar to the Type J1M, except in having more powerful engines, a slightly longer hull, and somewhat less range. The Type J2 definitely had a catapult aft, with the aircraft being launched astern.

The I-6 was the only ship of this type, but she was very active. Patrolling off Oahu at the start of the war, she damaged aircraft carrier USS Saratoga on 11 January, 1942, removing that valuable warship from the US Pacific Fleet's roll call for a very critical six month period. I-6 made one patrol off the coast of Java in early 1942, then performed reconnaissance off the western coast of India in April 1942. She sank two cargo vessels in each of these missions, including 5,897-ton Clan Ross and the 5,424-ton Bahadar off Bombay. She patrolled Aleutian waters in late 1942, then laid mines, including six acoustic mines received from Germany, off Brisbane, Australia on 13 March 1943. Allied naval intelligence knew of this mission in advance Three American submarines waited in ambush, but none sighted I-6 that night.

I-6 was sunk in a collision with the freighter TOYOKAWA MARU on 16 June 1944.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_j2.htm

[morejeffs]

>I-6 was sunk in a collision with the freighter TOYOKAWA MARU on 16 June 1944.

A rather ignominious ending for an impressive ship. A very shameful display!

[jiajia1]

ORIGINAL: Platoonist

The combined fleet site has this short biography on the I-6 if it would be of any use. Apparently, she was the only Type J2 built.

Authorized in the "First Replenishment Program" of 1931, the Type J2 was similar to the Type J1M, except in having more powerful engines, a slightly longer hull, and somewhat less range. The Type J2 definitely had a catapult aft, with the aircraft being launched astern.

The I-6 was the only ship of this type, but she was very active. Patrolling off Oahu at the start of the war, she damaged aircraft carrier USS Saratoga on 11 January, 1942, removing that valuable warship from the US Pacific Fleet's roll call for a very critical six month period. I-6 made one patrol off the coast of Java in early 1942, then performed reconnaissance off the western coast of India in April 1942. She sank two cargo vessels in each of these missions, including 5,897-ton Clan Ross and the 5,424-ton Bahadar off Bombay. She patrolled Aleutian waters in late 1942, then laid mines, including six acoustic mines received from Germany, off Brisbane, Australia on 13 March 1943. Allied naval intelligence knew of this mission in advance Three American submarines waited in ambush, but none sighted I-6 that night.

I-6 was sunk in a collision with the freighter TOYOKAWA MARU on 16 June 1944.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_j2.htm

thank you for posting it here.
back to the game do you think get a fp one the ss a good idea? with most ss (I class) deploy around LA for cutting fuel transportation?

[Platoonist]

ORIGINAL: jiajia1


back to the game do you think get a fp one the ss a good idea? with most ss (I class) deploy around LA for cutting fuel transportation?

It's always nice to have a float plane onboard, but my own small experience with operating Japanese submarines close-in off US West Coast cities is that it is a tough neighborhood to play in. The enemy can swamp your possible location pretty quickly with everything from freshly constructed first-line destroyers to lowly yard patrol vessels. Aerial patrols are plentiful too. If you get damaged, it's a long trip home to the Japanese Mandates even. This tends to make you patrol further out in the deep Pacific where there are no good choke points and you have to trust to luck for sinking tankers and merchantmen.

But maybe someone with more experience in the department will chime in. [8D]

[jiajia1]

ORIGINAL: Platoonist

ORIGINAL: jiajia1


back to the game do you think get a fp one the ss a good idea? with most ss (I class) deploy around LA for cutting fuel transportation?

It's always nice to have a float plane onboard, but my own small experience with operating Japanese submarines close-in off US West Coast cities is that it is a tough neighborhood to play in. The enemy can swamp your possible location pretty quickly with everything from freshly constructed first-line destroyers to lowly yard patrol vessels. Aerial patrols are plentiful too. If you get damaged, it's a long trip home to the Japanese Mandates even. This tends to make you patrol further out in the deep Pacific where there are no good choke points and you have to trust to luck for sinking tankers and merchantmen.

But maybe someone with more experience in the department will chime in. [8D]

I will do a test later to perform this plan with AI first. surely I will need a forward base idealy would be midway. and many details need consider.
in the history, 6th fleet did assault west coast for a short period after hawaii but had little effect. many I captains wants to use their subs sink cargo ships but were forbiden from combined fleet. even americans were curious why japanese did not do what germans did. it is interesting to perform their ideas historicly.

[Platoonist]

ORIGINAL: morejeffs

>I-6 was sunk in a collision with the freighter TOYOKAWA MARU on 16 June 1944.

A rather ignominious ending for an impressive ship. A very shameful display!

Collisions between friendly vessels are possible in the game, but I think they have to be in the same task force for it to happen, so I don't think a sub-merchant accident like this would be possible.

[jiajia1]

thanks to this game. it lets me not play a game but play history!

thanks to 2by3. they give players infinite imagine of their own pacific theatre. I wish I could help.

[Platoonist]

ORIGINAL: jiajia1



in the history, 6th fleet did assault west coast for a short period after hawaii but had little effect. many I captains wants to use their subs sink cargo ships but were forbiden from combined fleet. even americans were curious why japanese did not do what germans did. it is interesting to perform their ideas historicly.

Yeah, the Japanese had quite the cordon of submarines deployed off the US West Coast in late 1941. Between the 18th and 29th of December, they attacked nine ships, sinking two of them.

The low number of sinkings achieved as always can be attributed to the little emphasis Japanese submarine doctrine put on attacking merchant shipping. The battle manual on board each submarine rigidly fixed the maximum number of torpedoes to be fired at various targets. Merchantmen only rated one. These same submarines in the map below were also supposed to shell American coastal cities on Christmas Eve 1941, but that event got called off.

[RangerJoe]

That map does show a remnant of Lake Bonneville, if I remember the name correctly.