He terrorized the town and took hostages.
they thought was uninhabited — and wait for a submarine to pick them up at night. One first-class Japanese Zero pilot, Shigenori Nishikaichi, would need to stop in Niihau.
“We think his gas tanks were hit, did not explode,” Rod Bengston, the director of exhibits, restoration and curatorial services at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, told SFGATE. “So he made his way down to Niihau, and as he was coming in, his landing gear either hit a fence and were sheared off, or he landed in a field that had been plowed on purpose with big ruts across it to keep planes from landing there, and that had ripped off the gear.
Next, the Niihauans reached out to island residents Yoshio and Irene Harada, who were also of Japanese descent, and they talked to the pilot, who told them about Pearl Harbor and that he wanted his weapon and papers returned. For unknown reasons, the Haradas decided to keep what he told them about the Pearl Harbor attack a secret. They did tell Kaleohano that Nishikaichi wanted his weapon and papers back. Kaleohano said no.
“What he did not know is that all the Japanese submarines had been ordered not to go to Niihau but rather to attempt to patrol for any American ships that went out that night. It may be that they didn’t know anybody went to the island and crashed there.”The attack on Pearl Harbor is revealed
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