From the U.S.Naval Institute:
#OTD in 1945, the USS Barb "sank" a train when a landing party went ashore at Karafuto, Japan, and planted the sub's scuttling charges on a track. As the party paddled back to the sub, the explosives detonated and wrecked a train. A victory mark in the form of a silhouette of the train was added to the bottom of Barb's battle flag. The raid was the only U.S. ground operation on the Japanese home islands during the war.













