2442 - Decors de bureau commemoratif. Representant un sous-marin en metal sur un support en bois. Plaquette disposant de nombreux Kanji. En hommage au 5eme sous-marin de poche qui ont attaques Pearl Harbor. Fait par l academie de Etajima apres la guerre. Longueur 22 cm. Hauteur 11 cm. Cinq de ces unites participerent a l attaque de Pearl Harbor, et peut-etre deux d entre elles atteignirent le port. Les archives de la guerre secrete montrent que les equipages de sous-marins avaient recu l ordre de les saborder apres l attaque et que des dispositions avaient ete prises pour recuperer les equipages ulterieurement. Sur les cinq deployes pour l attaque de Pearl Harbor, seul le n° 19 fut capture avec son pilote Kazuo Sakamaki, qui s echoua du cote est d Oahu. Un deuxieme sous-marin de poche, le n° 18, avait ete endommage par une attaque de charge de profondeur et abandonne par son equipage avant de pouvoir tirer ses torpilles. Le sous-marin n° 20 attaque par l USS Ward a 06 h 37 le 7 decembre fut localise a 400 metres de profondeur a cinq miles de Pearl Harbor par un submersible de recherche de l universite d Hawai le 28 aout 2002. Un quatrieme sous-marin, le n° 22, entra dans le port et tira ses torpilles sur les USS Curtiss et USS Monaghan. Ces deux torpilles manquerent leurs cibles, une aurait heurte un quai a Pearl City et l autre la rive de l ile de Ford. Ce sous-marin sera coule par le Monaghan a 08 h 43 le 7 decembre. En 1992, 2000 et 2001, les submersibles du Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory ont retrouve l epave d un sous-marin de poche gisant en trois parties a trois miles au sud de l entree de Pearl Harbor. L epave se trouvait dans le champ de debris ou une grande partie de l equipement americain excedentaire a ete deverse lors de la catastrophe du West Loch de 1944, y compris des vehicules et des peniches de debarquement. En 2009, une equipe de recherche reunie par la serie televisee PBS Nova identifia le sous-marin n° 16 comme etant le dernier des 5 navires « Ko-Hyoteki » ayant participe a l attaque du 7 decembre 1941, pilote par l enseigne Masaji Yokoyama et Petty Officier de 2e classe Sadamu Kamita. Ses deux torpilles etaient manquantes, indiquant qu elles auraient pu etre tirees avant son naufrage. Commemorative desk ornament. Depicting 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 number 19 was captured together with its pilot Kazuo Sakamaki, after running aground on the eastern side of Oahu. A second midget submarine, number 18, was damaged by a depth charge attack and abandoned by its crew before it could fire its torpedoes. Submarine number 20, attacked by 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 USS Curtiss and USS Monaghan. Both torpedoes missed their targets. One reportedly struck a dock at Pearl City and the other the shore of Ford Island. This submarine was sunk by 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 number 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.