Japanese Could Not Believe U.S. Submarines Sank Over 5 Million Tons of Their Shipping Explore how ⚓🐋 silent steel hunters beneath the Pacific waves sealed Japan’s fate in World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, just **52 U.S. submarines** sank over **5.3 million tons** of Japanese shipping—more than **55% of Japan’s merchant fleet**—crippling its war economy. Yet, astonishingly, Japan’s military command dismissed submarines as a *“minor threat.”* Through verified archives from the **Joint Army-Nav

A top-secret US operation placed a device resembling a 55-gallon drum with a plutonium reactor on the ocean floor. They tapped a Soviet telephone cable, recording every communication between the Soviet Pacific fleet and Moscow, until a traitor exposed the mission. A perilous game beneath the waves. #ColdWar #Espionage #SovietUnion #Submarines #SecretOperation | War Stories