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pp. 311, “Billings promises more than he delivers in this scattershot account of the Japanese submarine I-52, which American warplanes sank in June 1944 off the Cape Verde Islands. The author claims the I-52 was transporting two tons of gold bullion to Germany as payment for Nazi weapons and 500 kilograms of uranium oxide. Billings asserts that the purchase was part of a Japanese plan to drop a radiological (dirty) bomb on Los Angeles or San Francisco in a desperate attempt to stave off defeat. The Germans finally shipped the uranium oxide in April 1945 on board the submarine U-234, which surrendered to the USS Sutton on May 15 in the south Atlantic. This makes for an intriguing tale, but the evidence to support it is thin?he I-52’s gold was never found and Japanese atomic bomb experimentation is unconfirmed.”
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| ISBN | 451217667 | |
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| Published Date | 2006 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | London | |
| Edition | First Edition | |
| Category: | Military History | |
| Author: | Richard N. Billings | |
| Publisher: | Nal |
pp. 311, “Billings promises more than he delivers in this scattershot account of the Japanese submarine I-52, which American warplanes sank in June 1944 off the Cape Verde Islands. The author claims the I-52 was transporting two tons of gold bullion to Germany as payment for Nazi weapons and 500 kilograms of uranium oxide. Billings asserts that the purchase was part of a Japanese plan to drop a radiological (dirty) bomb on Los Angeles or San Francisco in a desperate attempt to stave off defeat. The Germans finally shipped the uranium oxide in April 1945 on board the submarine U-234, which surrendered to the USS Sutton on May 15 in the south Atlantic. This makes for an intriguing tale, but the evidence to support it is thin?he I-52’s gold was never found and Japanese atomic bomb experimentation is unconfirmed.”
| Weight | 0.85 kg |
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