“I think it’s been about two or three times in the past six months we’ve allegedly been sunk, which we have not been,” Hill told The Associated Press during a recent visit to the carrier. “It is almost comical at this point. They’re attempting to maybe inspire themselves through misinformation, but it doesn’t work on us.”

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    5 months ago

    The big class carried three.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine

    They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations.

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    It wasn’t an I-400 that bombed Oregon, but apparently Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, Japan’s abandoned last-ditch plan to hit with the US with some form of strategic bombing, dropping bubonic plague bombs on population centers in the US, would have used an I-400. I don’t know how effective that would have been – the US had taken preemptive measures to work up anti-biological-warfare stuff earlier in the war – but at least potentially, that’s a considerable amount of hitting power.