The Yanagi missions (柳作戦, Yanagi sakusen), or more formally the Submarine Missions to Germany (遣独潜水艦作戦, Kendoku sensuikan sakusen), were a series of submarine...

Yanagi (柳) ("willow") can refer to: Yanagi (surname), a Japanese surname Yanagi missions, a series of long-distance submarine voyages during the Second...

command of Lieutenant Commander (later Captain) Izu Juichi (伊豆壽市). The Yanagi missions fell under the Tripartite Pact which provided for an exchange of personnel...

commander of the Combined Fleet, selected I-52 for a special mission to Germany. Yanagi missions were enabled under the Axis Powers' Tripartite Pact to provide...

either destination and only four Japanese submarines succeeded in these Yanagi attempts: I-30 (April 1942), I-8 (June 1943), I-34 (October 1943) and I-29...

but I-14 had hangar space for two, and the giant I-400 class, three. Yanagi missions were enabled under the Axis Powers' Tripartite Pact to provide for...

addition to I-30, sunk in the only Yanagi mission prior to I-8′s voyage, the three submarines which attempted Yanagi missions after I-8 — I-34 , sunk by the...

1944. I-30 was the first Japanese submarine to reach Europe under the Yanagi missions, but she was sunk by a mine off Singapore on 13 October 1942. I-31...

Oregon on September 9, 1942. Other submarines undertook trans-oceanic yanagi missions to German-occupied Europe, such as I-30, I-8, I-34, I-29 and I-52,...

cleansing and genocide under the guise of anti-partisan warfare. see Yanagi missions and Heinkel He 111 torpedo bomber operations "Control Council Law No...