#8 Ann Arbor Stories: The Suicide Sub Comes to Ann Arbor

Thu, 05/26/2016 - 5:30am

When: May 26, 2016

See 38 and a half tons ... 81 feet of fanatical fiendishness. See one of the ships in which two of our enemies volunteer to accept death in order to blow up their objectives. See this Japanese suicide submarine and realize what a vicious, tricky, desperate enemy our boys are fighting in the pacific. Let’s hit them harder. Let’s depth-bomb them to the bottom of the sea - let’s show them what an aroused, all-out America can do. On that Saturday, July 17, 1943, this honest to goodness captured Japanese suicide sub would roll through the streets of Ann Arbor in one of the weirdest parades in city history. Music by Hollow & Akimbo Further reading and photos from AADL's Old News