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Originally Posted by ghfromaltonbay
Because of the high mountains the planes were not sighted until they were directly over the basin there. It made me wonder who knew that the radar facility was 5 days from being put into service??
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• An hour
before the attack, a Japanese submarine was sighted from the air by a
Patrol
Bomber (
PBY), and rammed/sunk by the destroyer USS MONAGHAN:
http://www.pearlharborsurvivorsonlin...e%20Attack.htm
•
The USS Ward sank another—the
first shot of WW2—and was
itself sunk on
December 7th, 1944.
•
Japanese torpedoes were state-of-the-art—
actually better! 
In the early years of the war, most enemy ships were destroyed using US torpedoes dating from WW1.
• One
US submarine was sunk by a "new" US torpedo—launched by the same submarine.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08216d.htm
• Following the Pearl Harbor attack, there was a major victory at sea—but
it wasn't for the US!
• If the President is still in
Kailua, Hawaii, he could see that little island in the attached photograph. When my family lived in
Kailua, that island was called "Rabbit Island"; since then, the name has reverted to its original native name: