『The Submarine in the Cornfield: How a Japanese Super-Weapon Terrorized the American Heartland』のカバーアート

The Submarine in the Cornfield: How a Japanese Super-Weapon Terrorized the American Heartland

The Submarine in the Cornfield: How a Japanese Super-Weapon Terrorized the American Heartland

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 In the autumn of 1944, a farmer in rural Oregon made a discovery that sent shockwaves to the highest levels of the Pentagon: the wreckage of a futuristic Japanese aircraft, not on a distant Pacific atoll, but nestled in the trees of his own property. This was no ordinary crash. It was the first physical evidence of a secret, desperate, and shockingly effective Japanese campaign to bring the fire of war directly to the continental United States, using a weapon no one thought possible: a submarine-launched bomber. This episode dives into the clandestine world of the Imperial Japanese Navy's I-400 class—the largest submarines ever built until the nuclear age. Designed as underwater aircraft carriers, each could carry three folded-wing bombers, the very same type found in that Oregon forest. We trace their ambitious mission, codenamed Operation PX, which aimed to unleash biological warfare on American cities, and the harrowing, if less destructive, firebombing raids they actually conducted against the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Listeners will uncover the technological marvel of these submarine giants, the moral crisis that led to the cancellation of their deadliest mission, and the frantic American hunt for these hidden leviathans in the war's final days. It’s a story of unprecedented strategic reach, failed doomsday plots, and the moment the war truly landed on America's doorstep. The silent threat that sailed beneath the waves to start fires from the sky. #JapaneseSubmarineAircraftCarriers #I400Class #OperationPX #WWIIHomeFrontAttacks #BalloonBombsAndBeyond #SecretWeaponsOfThePacific Hosted by Ibnul Jaif Farabi. Produced by Light Knot Studios (lightknotstudios.com).
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