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The Sinking of I-29: The Submarine That Almost Brought the Jet Age to Japan

#History #Documentary #WWII #MilitaryHistory In the dark waters between the Philippines and Taiwan, one of the most critical moments of the Pacific War unfolded in near-total secrecy. It was the final act of a 30,000-mile voyage, a mission of desperation to deliver a cargo that could have changed history: the future of air power. This is the story of the Japanese submarine I-29, her legendary commander, and the priceless Nazi "wonder weapons" she carried in her holds. By 1944, Japan's military was facing collapse. Outnumbered and technologically outmatched, Japanese High Command pinned their hopes on a desperate gamble known as the Yanagi missions. They would send their largest submarines on an impossible journey to Nazi-occupied France to trade raw materials for Germany's most advanced military technology—jet engines, rocket interceptors, advanced radar, and acoustic torpedoes. This documentary chronicles the incredible voyage of the I-29, the single most important of these missions. We uncover the enormous technological gap that forced Japan's hand, the staggering dangers of the journey around the world, and the revolutionary cargo that promised to sweep American B-29s from the skies. But while the I-29 sailed in secret, an unseen enemy was listening. At Bletchley Park and in Hawaii, Allied codebreakers were reading Japanese and German signals, turning the hunters into the hunted. This is the story of how an intelligence coup led to a precisely planned ambush, and the final, violent confrontation that determined whether Japan would enter the jet age in time to prolong the war.