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Sub appears to be surfacing at the Nimitz Museum in Fbrg	USS Cavalla	USS Stewart	USS Texas BB35

Past Trips and Info

The USS Lexington provious trip	280mm Atomic Cannon Betty's Shooting Irons

In February of 2016 we went to Fredericksburg then Texas City and Galveston to see naval ships.   We saw the submarine in front of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg.   Then we went to Seawolf Park in Galveston to see the USS Cavalla (WWII Fleet Subrarine) and Stewart (WWII Destroyer Escort or Sub Killer), and finally to the USS Texas (WW-I Battle Ship).  

BTW, I thought they did a great job at the Museum of the Pacific War in Fbrg, using an actual submarine conning tower (or sail) and some concrete to make it look like a submarine surfacing in the yard!

The bow is concrete, the conning tower is real.   Even the gound mimicks the waves when a sub surfaces.   I wish the power pole was somewhere else.

Closer look at the conning tower.

Other side of the conning tower.

HA-19 Japanese 2 man mini-sub used in Pearl Harbor attack Decmeber 07,1941.   Its only armament were the two torpedoes in it's nose (foreground), both were disabled due to collisions in repeated attempts to enter Pearl Harbor.   After several mishaps (groundings and partial flooding) the crew abandoned ship, the sub was finally washed ashore and ultimately pulled to safety by a US Army tractor.   Note the two small frames around the torpedoes, as I remember, these were supposed to help keep the sub from being caught on nets and cables.

Slightly different perspective.   This sub weighs 40 Tons and is 76' long.   The steel cable running from the bow to the top of the conning tower was to allow the submarine to pass throught a submarine net or cable.

Showing Betty for perspective, she's about 5'3'.

These were lashed to the deck of a type C Japanese submarine (I-24) and ferried to the attack area, then released.   This one was ferried by I-24, and was piloted by Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki (1918 - 1999) and Chief Warrant Officer Kiyoshi Inagaki (1915 - 1941).

Aft end showing the two counter rotating screws.   Again, Betty makes a good size reference.

The other side of the sub, showing the "windows" cut in the side to reveal the interior.

Looking through one of the windows, the interior, showing some of the controls etc.

This isn't a ship, its a real Mitchel Bomber (B-25), like the ones used by Doolittle on his tokyo raid, 04/18/42.   The Pearl Harbor attack was the first of a number of military disasters for the US, so President Roosevelt authorized an attack directly on the Japanese homeland so shore up American confidence.   16 of these Mitchel bombers, and 80 crew members, were loaded onto the USS Hornet, which, along with a small attack fleet headed by Adminral Halsey, moved to within striking distance of the Japanese home islands and attacked, only a pinprick but it was through the heart.

Some of the B-25s on the USS Hornet, en route to Japan.	Doolittle and some of the crews on the Hornet.