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The Vanished Golden Submarine’s Final Journey and Fate

Khalid Elhassan December 8, 2024 14 min

I-52 - Underwater wreckage of the Golden Submarine — Underwater wreckage of the Golden Submarine. National Geographic

4. A Mid-Atlantic Meeting Between German and Japanese Submarines

I-52 - Meeting of the I-52 and the U-530 — Meeting of the I-52 and the U-530. Submarine Art Gallery

As directed, the I-52 met up with the German U-530 on the night of June 22^nd, about 850 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. The U-boat topped off the Japanese submarine’s fuel tanks, furnished her with an Enigma coding machine, plus a radar detector, two radar operators, and a German liaison officer to help get her through the Bay of Biscay. The following evening, June 23^rd, the Bogue submarine killer group reached the area of the meeting, and began its hunt.

Written by

Khalid Elhassan

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.