“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.”
I’d say that, while literally true, “carries a single plane” is a real stretch when we’re talking about what we think of as aircraft carriers today.
Mostly I just think they’re an interesting historical footnote.
The big class carried three.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine
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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.