China-Burma-India WWII

USS Sealion, unusually, was carrying a recording device in her conning tower during this patrol and some others. Audio recordings (in places hard to make out) of the conning-tower conversations during this attack, and another sinking on a later patrol, are on-line at the Historic Naval Ships Association website at

http://www.hnsa.org/sound/index.htm

There is a detailed analysis of this attack by Anthony Tully on the Nihon Kaigun website created by him and Jon Parshall. Among other things, this piece indicates that the battleship with Kongo was actually Nagato, not Haruna as stated in other sources.