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On a fateful day in 1944, the submarine USS Archerfish orchestrated a historic David versus Goliath naval showdown that would become one of the most legendary exploits of World War II. The USS Archerfish, a Balao-class submarine, sank the Japanese supercarrier IJN Shinano, a colossal 72,000-ton warship that bore the hopes of a beleaguered Imperial…

Heres What You Need to Remember: When the intelligence officers saw the distinctive, bulbous clipper bow Enright had drawn, they realized his kill had been the suspected third super warship of the Yamato class and that the Japanese had converted her to an aircraft carrier, although the intelligence people seriously underestimated her weight at 28,000 tons. Further confirmation came from an intercepted Japanese radio transmission from November 29: “ Shinano sunk.” The first torpedo struck ...