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In the past, whenever I thought of the Japanese role in WW1, it was always as a glorified garrison state. A side show which ultimately did very little for the Allied cause besides denying Germany some resources. Oh, how wrong I was! This is the story of the Second Special Squadron, a detachment of the Imperial Japanese Navy dispatched to the Mediterranean to help protect British and other Allied shipping against German and Austro-Hungarian U-boat attacks during one of the most pivotal moments in the entire war.
Sources used:
1) Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918 by Timothy D Saxon
2) Navy Squadron in the Mediterranean (Japan) by Tomoyuki Ishizu
3) Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I, by Dwight R Messimer
5 (oops! Mis-labelled it there) Empires at War, by Frederick R Dickinson
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