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The Niihau Incident


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intersting story. has to do with Pearl Harbor. the Japanese told their pilots if they can't make it back to the fleet to head for an uninhabited island called Niihau. land, and a sub would pick them up. they were attacked by US warplanes on their way back. this is about a zero pilot named Shigenori Nishikaichi who was forced to to fly to Niihau because of battle damage. including a punchered fuel tank. when he and another pilot arrived they were surpised to find the island was inhabited. by unfriendly natives who kept all foreigners out strickly taboo. known as the forbidden island

Niihau is the is the furthermost western island in the Hawaiian chain

 

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http://www.historynet.com/the-niihau-incident.htm

 

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http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/jimlansdale/ph_relics_8-10.htm (more photos)

 

this is a new one on me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just read the wiki on this....thank you. I never had heard of it, Until your post. Very interesting read that now puts the internment into context.

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