[Leica] OT was forbidden buildings now submarines

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Submarine aficionados may be interested to know that the last Japanese 
midget submarine used to attack Sydney Harbour in 1942, has
only very recently been discovered off Australia. A similar craft took part 
in the Pearl Harbour attack previously.
http://home.brisnet.com.au/~dunn/japsubs/midgetsubs.htm

cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Forbidden building

Seems so:


http://www.submarinebooks.com/Manitowoc.htm




On 6/19/07, Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Any photos of this around? Would be cool to see.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Biava" Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Forbidden building
>
>
> >I was not around to see it, but new American submarines were built in 
> >Wisconsin and traveled down the Mississippi to the Gulf on
> >their way to the war.  And that's a fact....
> >
> >
> >  ( But to tell "the rest of the story" they were transported on river 
> > barges.)    {8o)
> >
> > Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >  During WWII, Germans living in New Orleans(including ambassadors) were 
> > using their cameras(on fishing trips) to photograph the
> > waterways in and around the mouth of the Mississippi River. Of course 
> > now we know there was no way a U-Boat could get into the
> > Miss
> > River but they had excellent targets at the mouth of the river to shoot 
> > at for 2 years before we actually did something about
it.
> >
> > I've never had any problems here photographing bridges, but like Jeff 
> > pointed out, the local gov does not like their refineries
> > photographed.
> >
> > Chris
>
>
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Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA

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