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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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Plankowner Posts: 9163 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: March 25, 1915 USS F-4 leaves Honolulu Harbor for her morning training dive and fails to return to port. All 21 hands aboard died as the hull flooded through corroded rivets into the forward battery well. One man, James Morton Hoggett ET/3 had been left ashore, as was the custom with the Honolulu boats, while the morning dives were made. Our first submarine lost. Hand Salute! Two!  | ||
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