to float up under passing landing craft, and rows of stationary magnetic and contact-fuzed mines in shallow water closer to the beach. Implementation One thousand diving suits were ready by 15 August 1945, and eight thousand more had been ordered. Yokosuka had 450 suits, and both Kure and Sasebo had sixty suits. None of the planned ten thousand Type-5 attack mines had been completed, but four hundred dummy mines had been produced for training. Several deaths occurred during training due to malfunctions. Only twelve hundred men had been trained when Japan surrendered before the invasion of the Japanese mainland occurred. There are reports of some strikes that allegedly made use of similar military tactics: The infantry landing craft (gunboat) LCI(G)-404 was damaged by suicide swimmers in Yoo Passage, Palau Islands, on January 8, 1945. Some Japanese suicide swimmers attempted an attack upon the surveying ship in Schonian Harbor, Palau Group, on February 10, 1945. See also Kamikaze References External links Japanese suicide weapons World War II suicide weapons of Japan Imperial Japanese Navy Combat_diving Armed forces diving