Although Bulloch is a landlocked county 70 miles away from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, the courthouse lawn in the center of Statesboro served as the location for viewing a captured Japanese two-man suicide submarine on March 13, 1944. Its arrival was announced by the Bulloch Herald on Thursday, March 9. How an enemy submarine came to rest on the middle of the courthouse lawn is almost as curious as the story behind the midget Japanese sub itself.