Torosaur Crane
July 30, 2010, 9:52am
jortmaster
Torosaur Crane
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July 22, 2010, 12:04pm
jortmaster
Young Neil likes a Hurricane
Countdown to NEIL TIME, part 2.
June 04, 2010, 9:29am
jortmaster
Asian Hercules in action!
February 01, 2010, 9:27am
jortmaster
Another grey Monday, another 3500 tonne tandem roadway lift.
February 01, 2010, 9:26am
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December 05, 2009, 10:03pm
jortmaster
October 10, 2009, 8:58pm
dale-duh
I iz on ur boat, lettin ur bloodz and segmentin ur organz and stealin ur tripz to Cabo
July 29, 2009, 2:20pm
jortmaster
jortmaster
dale-duh
What’s the gun for and how does he talk to that wolf?
May 11, 2009, 9:46am
jortmaster
The midget submarine Ha-19 was a 46-ton Type “A” midget submarine built in Kure in 1938 and transported to the region of Pearl Harbor aboard the big submarine I-24.
When the Ha-19 was dispatched into Pearl Harbor with the five other Japanese midget submarines on December 7th 1941, its gyrocompass broke. This malfunction prevented its pilot Ensign Kazuo Shakamaki and crewman Kyoshi Inagaki from completing its attack mission at Pearl Harbor.
The midget wandered around without direction, overcome by battery fumes, spending the night of December 7th unconscious and drifting in the waters surrounding Oahu. The midget submarine went aground at Waimanalo, on the east coast of Oahu. Ensign Sakamaki and his submarine were captured by American forces on December 8th, and he became the first Japanese prisoner of war taken by the United States during the Pacific War. Inagaki died in the adventures of getting ashore. Sakamaki was humiliated to be taken alive, as the rest of the midget submariners died in Pearl Harbor combat. He demanded to be allowed to commit suicide in Oahu prison; American guards refused. Later he returned to Japan, deeply committed to pacifism, and was received with hostility among his fellow countrymen.
The Ha-19 itself was reclaimed and sent to the United States’ mainland, where it was displayed at various War Bond tours across the nation, becoming a valuable recruiting tool as an odd sort of P.O.W artefact of propaganda, symbolizing the American effort against the Japanese. Below is an image of President Frankilin D. Roosevelt touring the Mare Island Navy Yard in 1942, with the captured Ha-19 in the background.The midget sub remains on display at the Admiral Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas.
May 11, 2009, 9:30am
dale-duh
OH, HAI. LET’S TAKE MY MIDGET SUBS TO TOWN LAKE TODAY.
May 09, 2009, 2:34pm
dale-duh
