It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
December 7, 1941
found the Hawaii
Guardsmen setting up
defenses along the
coast of Windward
Oahu and it was here
that the first Japanese
prisoner-of-war was
taken – by Guardsmen.
Lieutenant Paul Plybon
and Sergeant David
Akui, members of
Company ”G” 298th
Infantry, sighted and
captured a two-man
Japanese submarine
that had washed ashore
at Waimanalo.
One of the occupants,
an ensign was captured
by the two Guardsmen.
The other crewman was
found dead inside the
craft.
Source www.ncsl.org...
Sakamaki ordered Petty Officer 2nd Class Inagaki Kiyoshi to swim ashore, while he set the demolition charges to destroy the submarine. Sakamaki then abandoned ship himself. Kiyoshi drowned attempting to swim ashore. Sakamaki succeeded, but passed out from exhaustion. Corporal Akui found him there.[5]
Also swimming ashore the next day was the commander of a Japanese two-man midget submarine which grounded on the reef off of Bellows. Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, captured by Lt. Paul S. Plybon and Cpt. David Akui of the 298th Infantry, was a the first prisoner of war taken by the United States in World War II. His companion's remains later washed up on the shore. Source hawaii.gov...
The engine then failed, so they set the demolition charges and abandoned ship, swimming for shore. Inagaki (Kiyoshi) disappeared. The explosives failed. Sakamaki awoke on shore under the gaze of Sergeant David M. Akui...
Source Essential Pearl Harbor © 2008 Osprey Publishing ospreypearlharbor.com...
Originally posted by HomerinNC
HOW DARE YOU!
People like you make me utterly and completely sick
Sakamaki had set an explosive charge to destroy his disabled submarine, which had been trapped on Waimanalo Beach, Oahu. When the explosives failed to go off, he swam to the bottom of the submarine to investigate the cause of the failure and became unconscious due to a lack of oxygen. Sakamaki was found by a Hawaiian soldier, David Akui, and was taken into military custody. When he awoke, he found himself in a hospital under American armed guard.
The explosives failed. Sakamaki awoke on shore under the gaze of Sergeant David M. Akui ....
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Great thread blocula.
Compare that Sakamaki story in the NYT article with what the NGEF (National Guard Education Foundation) site says about where they found Kiyoshi's body.
I'm sure there must be a reasonable explanation why the NYT and the NGEF would publish conflicting accounts regarding the discovery of Kiyoshi's body.
When Chadwickus posted that David Akui wiki, I read it. I noticed that Akui was walking on the beach with a Lieutenant. I noted that the "Lieutenant Paul Plybon" did not have his own wikipedia page.
So I googled Lieutenant Paul C. Plybon.
That's when I noticed he did not get a lot of hits on google.
I found another source for the story here, National Conference of State Legislatures (huh?) but it is word for word, the same as the NGEF site.
www.ncsl.org...
December 7, 1941
found the Hawaii
Guardsmen setting up
defenses along the
coast of Windward
Oahu and it was here
that the first Japanese
prisoner-of-war was
taken – by Guardsmen.
Lieutenant Paul Plybon
and Sergeant David
Akui, members of
Company ”G” 298th
Infantry, sighted and
captured a two-man
Japanese submarine
that had washed ashore
at Waimanalo.
One of the occupants,
an ensign was captured
by the two Guardsmen.
The other crewman was
found dead inside the
craft.
Source www.ncsl.org...
And just for comparison, here is the NYT source again, Goldstein from 1999:
Sakamaki ordered Petty Officer 2nd Class Inagaki Kiyoshi to swim ashore, while he set the demolition charges to destroy the submarine. Sakamaki then abandoned ship himself. Kiyoshi drowned attempting to swim ashore. Sakamaki succeeded, but passed out from exhaustion. Corporal Akui found him there.[5]
And still more sources on Sakamaki. This time, Hawaii dot gov!
Also swimming ashore the next day was the commander of a Japanese two-man midget submarine which grounded on the reef off of Bellows. Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, captured by Lt. Paul S. Plybon and Cpt. David Akui of the 298th Infantry, was a the first prisoner of war taken by the United States in World War II. His companion's remains later washed up on the shore. Source hawaii.gov...
edit on 4/9/2012 by SayonaraJupiter because: tags
Originally posted by blocula
reply to post by SheopleNation
Who wrote the so called historical facts and evidence? The winners of the war,of course and the winners like to make important events look comfortable from their points of view and only if it fits into their version of the story,will it then become the version we are taught and told about,not the losers version,we never hear from the defeated enemies perspectives and i have read about 150 non fiction books about ww-2 and i dont think i've even seen one historical book,written and published in japan,from japans point of view,from a japanese person who was in the war and then sold the book in usa book stores.It just wouldnt be politically correct to hear what they have to say...
edit on 9-4-2012 by blocula because: (no reason given)