12-12-09, 03:25 PM
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Just on a interesting note..
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7 December 1941: The Attack on Pearl Harbor:
At dawn, the CYNTHIA OLSON is exactly on the projected point of interception. Cdr Yokota establishes her nationality, surfaces and fires a warning shot. The schooner sends a SOS signal and lowers her two lifeboats. The I-26 fires 18 shells from her 140-mm aft gun at a range of 1,000 meters, but the schooner refuses to sink. Twenty minutes after the first shot the I-26 receives the signal "Tora, tora, tora!" Cdr Yokota submerges and fires a torpedo from 450 yards. It passes astern because the burning schooner is still making headway. Yokota fires 29 more shells and the OLSON starts to settle. Two hours later, concerned about a possible American air attack, Cdr Yokota decides that the OLSON is sinking and departs. Later, the OLSON does sink at 33-42N, 145-29W. She is the first American merchant to be sunk by a Japanese submarine in World War II.
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