User talk:Douglas Bowser

this can be added to the Pearl Harbor Attack page

Japanese Mini Submarine found April 28 2020

The first shot fired on December 7th 1941 - that “day of infamy” which launched the United States into World War II was not fired by the Japanese but rather by the U.S.Navy. It was recently confirmed in an article of the Honolulu Advertiser in April of 2020 that the University of Hawaii had found the sunken remains of a Japanese 2 man “midget” submarine in 1200’ of water 3 to 4 miles off shore of Pearl Harbor.

This correlates with a report from the destroyer USS Ward one hour before the Japanese attack that they had fired upon, hit and sunk a small unidentified submarine while patrolling waters off of Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. The crew reported that they had hit the sub at the base of its conning tower an hour before the Japanese aerial attack began. This correlates with the University of Hawaii’s Undersea Research Laboratory findings of the sunken 78 foot submarine. While the research teams were testing and training with two submersible, the Pisces IV and V, they discovered the mini sub intact with two torpedoes still on board and a massive hole at the base of the conning tower.

The Honolulu Advertiser interviewed Daniel Martinez, historian for the National Park Service's USS Arizona Memorial, who called the discovery one of the most significant finds since the war. "This confirms the events of the eyewitnesses who were out there that morning, that said they fired and sunk a submarine," Martinez said. "More importantly, this is a significant part of history. This is the first opening sequence of World War II for the United States and Japan", said Martinez.