Mochitsura hashimoto biography of abraham lincoln

Japanese World War II submarine commander

Mochitsura Hashimoto (橋本以行, Hashimoto Mochitsura, 14 October 1909 – 25 October 2000) was a Japanese officer and a submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

He was captain of the submarine I-58, which sank the American heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis in 1945 after its delivery of parts and enriched uranium for the first atomic weapon used in wartime, Little Boy, prior to the attack on Hiroshima.

Mochitsura hashimoto biography of abraham lincoln

Born in Kyoto and educated at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Hashimoto volunteered for service in submarines and was aboard submarine I-24 during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hashimoto commanded coastal patrol and training submarines off Japan for much of the war, and in 1944 took command of I-58, a submarine which was equipped to carry kaiten manned torpedoes.

After a number of unsuccessful operations, under the command of Hashimoto I-58 sank Indianapolis