Wrecks of the Japanese transport Yamazuki Maru and a Type A class submarine on Guadalcanal, in May 1944. (NH 97250)

1944

Wrecks of the Japanese transport Yamazuki Maru and a Type A Ko-hyoteki class submarine on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in May 1944. Yamazuki Maru was beached near Veuru (Tassafaronga Point) on 15 November 1942 and immediately after daybreak destroyed by U.S. aircraft, field artillery and the destroyer USS Meade (DD-602). During mid-1943, a Japanese Type A midget submarine, that had been scuttled.