Japanese Submarine I-69 Launching Commemorative Medal/昭和九年伊号第六十九潜水艦進水記念章

Obverse

伊号第六十九潜水艦進水記念 - Japanese Submarine I-69 Launching Commemorative

Reverse

昭和九年二月十五日進水 - Launched on February 15, 1934


三菱神戸造船株式会社神戸造船所建造 - Built at Mitsubishi Kobe Shipbuilding Co.

marked

造幣局製 - Made by Mint


Original case.

記念 - Commemorative

Inside 造幣局製 - Made by Mint

 

I-69, later I-169, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai-class cruiser submarine of the KD6 sub-class commissioned in 1935. She served in World War II, during which she conducted six war patrols and took part in operations supporting the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Guadalcanal campaign, the Aleutians campaign, and the defense of the Gilbert Islands. She sank in a diving accident in April 1944.

Wreck of I-169 on December 1, 2015.

 

Blackened version.