A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to nine, with little or no on-board living accommodation. They normally work with mother
Some 80 Japanese Type D "Kōryū" Midget Submarines in a dry dock at Kure, 19 October 1945
Crew of a British X-class midget submarine, part of the British Pacific Submarine Fleet
German midget submarine Seehund, with a torpedo
An Italian CB-class submarine in the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb, Croatia
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Empire of Japan on the US Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the US was
Midget submarine
…diesel fueled by liquid oxygen, which provides an underwater range of 400 nmi (740 km). Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarines were used in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1942 attack on Sydney Harbour, and the 1942 Allied attack on Diego Suarez Harbor, in which the type 97 torpedo was used operationally. The wreckage…
Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941, a month before the attack, with Ford Island visible (in the center)
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor
The route followed by the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor and back