Mochitsura Hashimoto Military person
Mochitsura Hashimoto (橋本 以行, Hashimoto Mochitsura, 1909 – 25 October 2000) was an officer and a submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He is best known as the captain of Japanese submarine I-58, which sank the USS Indianapolis in 1945.Born in Kyoto and educated at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Hashimoto volunteered for service in submarines and was later aboard submarine I-24 during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hashimoto commanded coastal patrol and training submarines off Japan for much of the war, and in 1944 took command of I-58, a ship which was equipped to carry kaiten, or manned torpedoes. After a number of unsuccessful operations, I-58 sank the Indianapolis on 30 July while on a midnight patrol. Hashimoto's submarine then returned to Japan, one of the few such ships to survive the war. Hashimoto was then called to testify at the court-martial of Charles B. McVay III, the Indianapolis commander, a move which was controversial at the time. He was later part of an effort to exonerate McVay. Hashimoto later became a Shinto priest. He died in 2000.
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| allegiance | Empire of Japan |
|---|---|
| award | |
| military operations | |
| military command | I-158 I-58 Ro-31 Ro-44 |
| service start | 1931 |
| service end | 1945 |