| |translation = I am I-41, an I-class submarine, the second of a remodeled class of the mainstay Junsen Type Bs. Under the command of famed captain Itakura, I crossed many dangerous obstacles to accomplish my missions. | | |translation = I am I-41, an I-class submarine, the second of a remodeled class of the mainstay Junsen Type Bs. Under the command of famed captain Itakura, I crossed many dangerous obstacles to accomplish my missions. |
− | We made supply runs in very dangerous waters in order to rescue his superior to whom he was very close.<ref>This was Vice Admiral Samejima Tomoshige, who had established his Eighth Fleet headquarters in Buin, Bougainville in New Guinea. Back in 1935, Itakura had gotten upset over the behavior of a superior and punched Samejima, the captain of his ship, while drunk. Samejima showed leniency, and Itakura repaid him years later in 1944 with three dangerous runs to Buin. On one of these trips he brought a bottle of whiskey, which Samejima kept to his dying day.</ref> | + | We made supply runs in very dangerous waters in order to rescue his superior to whom he was very close.<ref>This was Vice Admiral Samejima Tomoshige, who had established his Eighth Fleet headquarters in Buin, Bougainville in New Guinea. Back in 1935, Itakura had gotten upset over the behavior of a superior and punched Samejima, the captain of their ship Mogami, while drunk. Samejima showed leniency, and Itakura repaid him years later in 1944 with three dangerous runs to Buin. On one of these trips he brought a bottle of whiskey, which Samejima kept to his dying day.</ref> |