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At random: The first Japanese prisoner of war captured by the Americans was Kazuo Sakamaki, an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was captured on the morning of December 7, 1941. Sakamaki had set an explosive charge to destroy his disabled submarine, which had been trapped on Waimanalo Beach. When the explosives failed to go off, he swam to the bottom of the submarine to investigate the cause of the failure and became unconscious due to a lack of oxygen. Sakamaki was found by a Hawaiian soldier, David Akui, and was taken into military custody. When he awoke, he found himself in a hospital under American armed guard. After the war he returned to Japan and found work with the Toyota Motor Corporation before retiring in 1987. Sakamaki died on November 29, 1999, aged 81.

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fortyrod

Posted 2025-08-07 3:03 AM (#105586)

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Subject: Maintenence problems

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/attack-submarine-sidelined-decade-says-123317221.html

Coyote

Posted 2025-08-07 4:20 PM (#105588 - in reply to #105586)

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Location: NE Florida

Subject: RE: Maintenence problems

We hold RAYunions to celebrate our service aboard USS RAY (SSN653). The RAYunion in 2017 was held in Norfolk, fifty years after the ship's commissioning at NNS&DD across the river.
We had set up submarine tours - half the group toured Virginia-class John Warner, the other half Boise.
Those who toured Boise came back dejected to find a boat in such shape - not physically bad, but mentally bad. The reactor "keys" had been taken away due to lack of skilled nukes. They couldn't qualify because they couldn't the things required. The crew (much smaller) stood duty, did some housekeeping, and went ashore. They said the maintenance funds could not be found to pay for the work due to new-construction needs. So it sat and sat at NS Norfolk.

USS Ray (above) was one of THIRTEEN submarines authorized by the Congress in the single year 1963 at the height of the submarine cold war with Russia. Now we can't find the dollars to refuel one.

Coyote

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