12-9/10 history/incidents
fortyrod
Posted 2017-12-09 4:20 AM (#86912)
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Subject: 12-9/10 history/incidents

12-9-1941 USS Swordfish SS193 makes the initial submarine attack on Japanese shipping.
http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-triumph-and-loss-of-uss-swordfish-ss-193/

12-10-1941 Guam surrenders to Japanese

12-10-41 Aircraft from the USS Enterprise CV-6 attack and sink Japanese submarine I70. The first Japanese combatant ship sunk in ww2
http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/12/sinking-the-i-70/

1979 The first Poseidon class submarine USS Francis Scott Key SSBN 657 configured with trident missiles completes it's first patrol.

1982 USS Ohio SSBN 726 the first Trident class submarine completes it's first patrol
Dantini
Posted 2017-12-09 7:07 AM (#86914 - in reply to #86912)


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Subject: RE: 12-9/10 history/incidents

The destroyer USS Ward shot at, depth charged, and sank a Japanese midget submarine off the mouth of Pearl Harbor about an hour before the aerial attack on Battleship row. 12/7/1941.