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I-15 was a Japanese B1 type submarine. She was completed at Kure Navy Yard on September 30, 1940, whereupon she entered into service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her first and only commanding officer was Commander Nobuo Ishikawa. ''I-15'' operated off the north coast of Oahu during the raid on Pearl Harbor. Her second wartime patrol, in May and June 1942, took her to the Aleutians, where she conducted reconnaissance of several islands. ''I-15''s third and final patrol took place from August to November 1942, when she operated in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, supporting the Japanese efforts to hold Guadalcanal. One source (Morison) suggests that ''I-15'' hit the battleship with a torpedo on September 15, 1942, but more recent authorities (Hackett & Kingsepp) maintain that the torpedo came from another submarine operating in the area, . On November 10, 1942, a U.S. ex-destroyer (modified to a fast minesweeper), sank ''I-15'' in Cape Rechereche, San Cristobal, with all hands lost.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imperial submarines I-15 )〕 Commander Ishikawa was promoted to the rank of Captain posthumously. On December 14, 1942, more than one month after I-15 sunk, the USS Wahoo (SS-238) sank an unknown submarine which it misidentified as the I-15. ==Sources== * Hackett, Bob & Kingsepp, Sander. HIJMS Submarine I-15: Tabular Record of Movement. http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-15.htm. Retrieved on March 15, 2009. * . Rear Admiral USN (ret.) O'Kane was ''Wahoos executive officer on her first five war patrols. * Morison, Samuel Eliot. ''The Struggle for Guadalcanal,'' pp. 131–34, 233. Volume 5 of ''The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II'' (1949). Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japanese submarine I-15 (1939)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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