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Historically, the Germans did try to send assistance to the Japanese jet program via submarine (the Type XB U-boat U-234 rather than I-8) during the final weeks of the war in Europe. U-234's cargo included an entire crated Me 262 and technical drawings. Among the passengers were August Bringewald, the man in charge of 262 production at Messerschmitt, and Franz Ruf, industrial machine specialist who designed appliances for aircraft manufacture. More ominously, 550kg of Uranium Oxide was also on board.

While still in the Atlantic, the crew learnt of Germany's defeat and surrendered to the US Navy south of the Grand Banks.

(source = Germany's Last Mission to Japan: The Failed Voyage of U-234 by Joseph Mark Scalia, Chatham Publishing, 2000)