Awaiting the I-52 in Lorient, to carry back home to Japan, were about 40 tons of advanced Nazi technology, plus assorted secret documents, drawings, and schematics. The cargo for the return voyage included German radar equipment, vacuum tubes, optical glass, bombsights, chemicals, a Jumo 213-A engine used in the FW-190D fighter, and T5 acoustic torpedoes that could home in on the sound of ship propellers.
A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.
I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.
A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.
