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Pearl Harbor, the event that accounts for a good share of the 72 million World War II death toll.
The SIX basic facts about Pearl Harbor: the first two have been known since last century, the last four since 2002.
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How many of these facts do you know?

1. The US government did all it could to force the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor.
2. The US government knew in advance: the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
3. On December 7, 1941, in the hours before the mass murder of 2,500 US sailors, the US government was visioning the preparation of the attack.
4. On December 7, 1941, the first round was shot by the US Navy.
5. On December 7, 1941, the first casualties were Japanese.
6. On December 7, 1941, the first round was shot not seconds but hours before the mass murder.

Reply (1) from poster mjk1971:
1: Absolutely. Rosenfeld maneuvered to force the Japanese into DEFENSIVE action.
2: Yes, radio transmissions were picked up for over a week from an unidentified source in the North Pacific. Further, British intelligence knew about what the Japs planned, and almost certainly told Rosenfeld.
3: WASHINGTON was, but they didn't bother to tell Kimmel & Short.
4: Yup, a destroyer blasted a little Jap sub off Oahu.
5: See #4
6: See #4

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The Search for the World War II Japanese Midget Submarine Sunk off Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

On August 28, 2002, two deep diving submersibles operated by the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL), found the Japanese midget submarine which was the first vessel sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941.

History

This midget sub find has been described as the most significant modern marine archeological find ever in the Pacific, second only to the finding of the Titanic in the Atlantic. The Japanese midget sub was one of five attached to five I-class mother submarines and brought from Japan to be launched 5-6 hours before the aerial attack, within a few miles of Pearl Harbor. The discovery of the midget submarine confirms the account radioed to naval command at Pearl Harbor at 6:45 am on Dec. 7, 1941 . A Japanese submarine was shot through the conning tower and then depth charged trying to enter Pearl Harbor behind the USS Antares. The crew of the attacking USS Ward , an older style four stack destroyer, saw the midget sub lifted out of the water by depth charges after firing the fatal shot from its four inch side gun. The Ward's crew were Naval reservists from St. Paul, Minnesota. Unfortunately, Naval command in Pearl Harbor ignored the Ward's report and the aerial attack began at 8 am. At the Pearl Harbor investigation, some question was made of the accuracy of the Ward's report. The Ward is now vindicated. The Ward itself was later targeted by the Japanese and sunk in a kamikaze attack, ironically on Dec. 7, 1944, in the Philippines.

Findings

The Japanese midget submarine was found in 400 m of water about five miles off the mouth of Pearl Harbor. As it is an historically significant military vessel and (per agreement with the government of Japan) a property of the U.S. federal government, its exact location is being protected by the U.S. State Department and heritage resource management agencies. The submarine sits upright on the bottom and is in amazingly good condition as shown in the photos. Both torpedoes are still in place. The submarine has no apparent depth charge damage but does have shell damage on both sides of the conning tower. The port side of the conning tower exhibits what one analyst has identified as shrapnel holes. This would presumably have come from the first shell fired by the USS Ward which exploded near the submarine but did not directly hit it. The starboard side of the conning tower shows a hole from the 4 inch shell fired by the side gun on the Ward as the ship steamed past. Apparently, this shell did not explode on impact as the midget sub conning tower is clearly still in place. While four depth charges were dropped directly on the midget as the Ward passed by, the charges were set to go off at a depth of 100 feet and the submarine was at the surface. The pressure wave created by the 4 depth charges was sufficient to fully lift the 46 ton, 78 foot midget out of the water, but did no visually apparent structural damage. The midget sub sank from flooding through the four inch shell hole.

Questions

A number of questions still remain over this submarine, which was the first casualty in the war between the U.S. and Japan. Why did the Naval command at Pearl Harbor apparently ignore a confirmed enemy sinking right off its harbor mouth? Why did the Japanese put so much faith in the five midget submarines that they were allowed to lead the Pearl Harbor attack? After all five of the attacking midget submarines were lost in their first engagement and shown to be ineffective, why did the Japanese Imperial Navy go on to build hundreds of midget submarines most of which were never used? Regarding the site and vessel itself: Should it ever be raised? What is its structural integrity and deterioration rate? How stable is its position on the seabed? How can we best learn from the site and preserve it for future generations?