Bellows Air Force Station 01/16/2022 - Where Japanese POW No. 1 was Captured

[Salvage Sailor]

Just another day in the dead of winter..

 

 

Bellows Beach where Japanese POW No. 1 was captured after his minisub lost it's way and floundered in the surf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where the HA-19 was beached on December 8th, 1941

 

 

Aloha

 

[Salvage Sailor]

HA-19 at Bellows Beach, December 8th, 1941

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOAA MARINE SANCTUARIES  JAPANESE MINI SUBMARINES AT PEARL HARBOR

 

 

Kazuo Sakamaki POW No. 1 Captured 12/08/1941 by Company G, 298th Infantry Regiment, Hawaii National Guard

 

 

After his capture he was literally removed from the records of the Imperial Japanese Navy and never honored....until now (see link below)

 

 

 

First Japanese POW taken prisoner at Pearl Harbor honored　
By ROPPEI TSUDA/ Staff Writer

December 9, 2021 at 18:56 JST

[Salvage Sailor]

Wrecked P-40 at Bellows Field 12/07/1941

 

B-17 Forced down at Bellows Field 12/07/1941

 

 

[FriarChuck]

Members of the 86th Observation Squadron discovered the sub and aided in Sakamaki’s capture and the subsequent salvage of his sub. I was in the 86th successor unit the 43d Electronic Combat Squadron for close to 8 years and we had several of those pictures and Sakamaki’s interment papers up in our bar. I reintroduced remembering Pearl Harbor as a Unit during my time there. Thanks for posting.

 

Friar