5th midget submarine at peral harbor

The camera on Pisces V is able to peer right inside the torpedo tubes. During the war time, these midget sub crews were regarded as hero gods. We know that none of the other midget subs successfully fired their torpedoes inside Pearl Harbor. Masanori Andou Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Arnold Bauer USS Vestal Survivor Burl Burlingame Author, Advance Force - Pearl Harbor John Chatterton Wreck Diving Expert www. This makes it necessary for the sub to have a large turning radius. But you saw them. Given the massive chaos that would ensue from the Kido Butai air attack plus the dangerously shallow water of the channel, the extreme limited endurance of the midget submarines made this impossible and, therefore, a one-way mission.

A number of questions still remain over this submarine, which was the first casualty in the war between the U. Pearl Harbor mini-submarine mystery solved? We want to see the rudders. A third sub ran aground before it ever got close to the action, and a fourth was found years later on the sea floor a few miles south of Pearl Harbor. A 3-D model offers a detailed look at the tiny submarine that carried torpedoes into Pearl Harbor. C N Trueman "Pearl Harbor and Midget Subs" historylearningsite.

BRIAN HOPKINS United States Navy: Pisces V KoK, you are clear to surface, clear for surface, over. Burl Burlingame is author of Advance Force: So far four of the five original midget submarines attacking Pearl Harbor have been found.