Nummer: 28919


Area : Pacific Ocean
Sea area : West Pacific
Date of minelaying : 18.04.1945
Nationality of U-boat : Japanese
U-boat : [I-56 ?]
Commander : Masada
Grid : 160sm E Okinawa
presumed result : hit not ascertained
Date of last signal/
last encounter :
08.04.1945
Nationality of target : American
Actual type of target : Submarine
Name of target : Snook (SS.279)
Year of launch : 1942
Actual tonnage : 1526 ts
Actual result : sunk
Position of target : Luzon Strait
Footnote : Operation against Okinawa. I-56 was dispatched on Apr.18th some 160nm E Okinawa before she could launch her kaitens. USS "Snook" (SS.279) was operating off Luzon Strait when she sent her last signal. It's mostly unprobable that she crossed the course of I-56.


updated on: 00.00.0000
Remark: Erfolg abgelehnt
Changes: 1) Carl Boyd, 24.11.95: SNOOK + by I-56
2) Kolbicz, 09.2008: Too much distance