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Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki became America's first prisoner of war in WWII when his midget submarine ran aground after his attempted attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Although initially wanting to commit suicide in shame for being captured, he gradually developed a more positive outlook as he spent the entire war in various POW camps in Wisconsin, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas. After the war's end, Sakamaki returned to his home in Japan, soon married, and started a job in the Nagoya area at Toyota Motor Corporation.
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/books/personal/sakamaki/index.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/21/world/kazuo-sakamaki-81-pacific-pow-no-1.html
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/books/personal/sakamaki/index.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/21/world/kazuo-sakamaki-81-pacific-pow-no-1.html
WWII World War Two
POW/MIA
Military History
American History
Warfare
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Awesome share- I had not heard this before and learned something today SGT John " Mac " McConnell
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell I knew about the midget sub. I knew about the ill advised Flying Boat attack. I didn't know that the war declaration wasn't unanimous, Elvis helped get the memorial funded, or that the Pearl Harbor ship to be sunk in combat occurred in 82. Thanks for the history lesson!
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