Once in a while there is an error in our KTB Magazine, which we mention with corrections. For some reason, there were a few that crept into the past one or two issue, so here is an entire section on corrections. We apologize for any error, and correct them here.

In “MEETING NEW MEMBERS’ some time back, under MICHAEL BUCK (4313-1995), the description should have read:

“My interest in submarines comes from early childhood and when a young man, my father gave me a one-foot-long plastic submarine. When a keel cavity was filled with baking soda and the boat launched across a pool, this boat (which looked a lot like a TYPE XXI) would dive forward, hover near the bottom, then resurface. My mother couldn’t bake for a month - I confiscated her supply of baking soda! I almost failed Junior High English because, instead of diagramming sentences, I was reading ‘DAS BOOT’ and Admiral Karl Dönitz’s ‘MEMOIRS’. My time in the Navy brought me to USS MOUNT WHITNEY (LCC 20) and USS SILVERSIDES (SSN 679).”

In KTB #122 YOYA KAWAMURA (1739-LIFE-1991) points out that there was no I.J.N. aircraft carrier named HAYATAKA. This is a case in which an error in wartime recognition is still being used. This was actually the I.J.N. carrier JUN’YO.

JONATHAN FINDLEY (1743-C/LIFE-1991) also wrote this fact, and added that JUN’YO was launched in 1941, was torpedoed and damaged off Nagasaki on 9 December 1944 by USS REDFISH and USS SEA DEVIL. JUN’YO never sailed again.

(Corrected in MagWeb.com--RL)

On page 17, YOYA writes: ‘I-22 did not launch two midgets. The KOHYOTEKI (A-Target Type A) that was used in this attack (as well as in the attacks at Pearl Harbor & Madagascar) displaced 46 tons submerged and the I-Boat could carry only one midget.’

Several Members realized that the photo of U-139 was the World War I submarine rather than the World War II boat.

WINFRIED vd BOOGAARD (4476-1995) sent a FAX telling us that the Dutch ship HOBEMA, sunk by U-132, was not a tanker but a cargo ship.

Thanks to all our Members for catching errors and bringing them to our attention. We try very hard to be totally accurate but once in a while, an error will creep in. Let us know and we’ll fix it.