After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the mini-sub washed ashore in Hawaii in December 1941. Then came the fight over who’d get to keep it
Frighteningly black and sleek, the 76-foot-long, 40-ton submarine known only by its assigned battle number,, served as part of the Japanese fleet’s vanguard, arriving at Hawaii even before the first bomb fell.
U.S. ships damaged or destroyed four Japanese midget submarines during the Pearl Harbor attack. American patrols were stunned to find HA-19 sitting in the Oahu surf the next morning. The surviving member of the two-man crew was found lying on the beach nearby.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
Only Inagaki made it to shore alive. He crawled onto the sand and passed out. When he awoke, he was facing the rifles of an American patrol. Inagaki begged the GIs to kill him. They would not, and so he became the first Japanese POW of World War II.Pearl Harbor enraged and humiliated America. To raise both morale and money through war bonds, the U.S. government broughtto the U.S., mounted it on an 18-wheeler, and trucked it around the country.
On its 1943 nationwide War Bond tour, HA-19 rolled through the streets of Fredericksburg, Texas. The Nimitz Hotel—named for the grandfather of World War II Admiral W. Chester Nimitz—is now part of the National Museum of the Pacific War, permanent home of HA-19.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
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