There were several classes of IJN subs that could, and did, launch aircraft.
One of which actually bombed the Pacific coast of the US, though it's small incendiary bombs failed to start a forest fire, which was it's objective.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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