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Aerial bombardment on pearl harbor but two months before the attack he changed the battle plan to include five mid get submarines. at 78 feet long and 5 feet high they could accommodate only two crew members. they were equipped with two 18-inch torpedoes and travel at speeds up to 19 knots while sub merged. we were the chosen ones among the chosen. one of the highest points in our lives. war stories investigates tracked him down in okayama japan. we were gradually making progress in training for the port and harbor assault. this was initially passing through narrow water kams because we were going into a naval port. oliver: just after midnight the midget submarines were ....
Released. kimmel s sailors were ready. he always thought that the most likely form of attack that the japanese might make upon pearl harbor would be a submarine attack. admiral stark sent an order to kimmel stating you are not to attack any japanese submarines if detected around the island of oahu but you kimmel secretly counter commandd that order and told both h his surface ship captains and his aircraft pilots that if they detected a japanese submarine they were to attack it at once. japanese midget submarines enters the defensive sea area. imaginary zone off the mouth of pearl harbor and here is a brand new captain knowing the orders closes in and attacks the submarine. ken swedberg was one of the reservists on the uss ward. ....