Pear Harbor Day – Remembering The Day of Infamy

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On December 7^th, 1941 at 03:42 hours Hawaiian time, Admiral Chuichi Nagumo ordered the aircraft to take off from the Japanese aircraft carrier to attack the United States fleet at the US Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Five midget submarines had been sent to torpedo US ships after the air attack started. None of the Japanese midget submarines returned. The minesweeper USS Condor had spotted a midget submarine outside the Pearl Harbor entrance and alerted the USS Ward, a destroyer. Hours later, the USS Ward fired the first shots that began the Pacific Theater of World War II, when she attacked and sank a midget submarine, probably the same one that was spotted around 0600 hours on the morning of December 7^th, 1941. Out of ten sailors aboard, only one survived, Kazuo Sakamaki, who became the first Japanese prisoner of war. One of the midget submarines that entered the harbor was able to fire a torpedo, which struck the USS West Virginia, and this may have been the first shot fired by the Japanese.