USS Barb’s Japanese Railroad Sabotage

On the night of July 22-23, 1945, USN Commander Eugene Fluckey sent a shore party from his submarine, the USS Barb (SS-220), to sabotage a railroad. The raiders became the only Allied force to invade mainland Japan in the war, and the Barb became the only sub in history with a confirmed kill on a train.

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