Lost WWII Submarine Found And Experts Discover More Secrets

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The Long and Tedious Process

New York Times

During the search, Taylor got in touch with Japanese researcher Yutaka Iwasaki and asked him to sift through the tons of files of the Sasebo base. This base had been used by the Japanese Imperial Navy during the war. The records they had to go through included daily radio updates from Naha on Okinawa Island, the site of a Japanese naval air facility. So, Iwasaki spotted the crucial single-digit error when he went about his duty. The said error had been made in the transcribed version of a report that had been radioed on February 27, 1944 – just several days after the Grayback had reported back to base. The message included an attack by a Nakajima B5N bomber, a vessel that had taken off from an aircraft carrier.