2442 - Commemorative desk ornament. Depicts a metal submarine on a wooden base. Plaque featuring numerous kanji characters. A tribute to the fifth pocket submarine that attacked Pearl Harbor. Made by the Etajima Academy after the war. Length: 22 cm. Height: 11 cm. Five of these vessels participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and perhaps two of them reached the harbor. Secret war archives show that the submarine crews had been ordered to scuttle the submarines after the attack and that arrangements had been made to recover the crews at a later date. Of the five deployed for the attack on Pearl Harbor, only No. 19 was captured along with its pilot, Kazuo Sakamaki, who ran aground on the east side of Oahu. A second midget submarine, No. 18, had been damaged by a depth charge attack and abandoned by its crew before it could fire its torpedoes. Submarine No. 20, attacked by the USS Ward at 6:37 a.m. on December 7, was located at a depth of 400 meters, five miles from Pearl Harbor, by a research submersible from the University of Hawaii on August 28, 2002. A fourth submarine, No. 22, entered the harbor and fired its torpedoes at the USS Curtiss and the USS Monaghan. Both torpedoes missed their targets; one reportedly struck a pier in Pearl City, and the other struck the shore of Ford Island. This submarine was sunk by the Monaghan at 8:43 a.m. on December 7. In 1992, 2000, and 2001, submersibles from the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory located the wreck of a midget submarine lying in three pieces three miles south of the entrance to Pearl Harbor. The wreck was located in the debris field where much of the surplus U.S. equipment was dumped during the 1944 West Loch disaster, including vehicles and landing craft. In 2009, a research team assembled by the PBS Nova television series identified Submarine No. 16 as the last of the five “Ko-Hyoteki” vessels that participated in the attack on December 7, 1941, piloted by Ensign Masaji Yokoyama and Petty Officer Second Class Sadamu Kamita. Its two torpedoes were missing, indicating that they may have been fired before the submarine sank. Commemorative desk ornament. Depicts a metal submarine on a wooden base. Plaque bearing numerous kanji characters. A tribute to the fifth midget submarine involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Made by the Etajima Naval Academy after the war. Length 22 cm. Height 11 cm. Five of these vessels took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and perhaps two of them entered the harbor. Records of the secret war show that submarine crews had been ordered to scuttle their craft after the attack and that arrangements had been made to recover the crews later. Of the five deployed for the Pearl Harbor attack, only No. 19 was captured along with its pilot, Kazuo Sakamaki, after running aground on the eastern side of Oahu. A second midget submarine, No. 18, was damaged by a depth charge attack and abandoned by its crew before it could fire its torpedoes. Submarine number 20, attacked by the USS Ward at 6:37 a.m. on December 7, was located at a depth of 400 meters, five miles from Pearl Harbor, by a University of Hawaii research submersible on August 28, 2002. A fourth submarine, number 22, entered the harbor and fired its torpedoes at the USS Curtiss and the USS Monaghan. Both torpedoes missed their targets. One reportedly struck a dock at Pearl City, and the other struck the shore of Ford Island. This submarine was sunk by the Monaghan at 8:43 a.m. on December 7. In 1992, 2000, and 2001, submersibles from the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory discovered the wreck of a midget submarine lying in three sections three miles south of the entrance to Pearl Harbor. The wreck lay in the debris field where much surplus American equipment had been dumped following the 1944 West Loch disaster, including vehicles and landing craft. In 2009, a research team assembled by the PBS television series Nova identified Submarine No. 16 as the last of the five Ko Hyoteki vessels involved in the attack of December 7, 1941, crewed by Ensign Masaji Yokoyama and Second Class Petty Officer Sadamu Kamita. Its two torpedoes were missing, suggesting that they may have been fired before the submarine sank.