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USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) was a Gleaves-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named in honor of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward. The USS Aaron Ward sank on April 7, 1943 in a shoal near Tinete Point of Florida Island.

Fleet submarines I-16, I-18, I-20, I-22, and I-24 each embarked a Type A midget submarine (HA 19) for transport to the waters off Oahu.The five I-boats left Kure Naval District on November 25, 1941, coming to 10 nm (19 km) off the mouth of Pearl Harbor and launched their charges, at about 01:00 December 7. At 03:42 Hawaiian Time, the minesweeper USS Condor spotted a midget submarine periscope southwest of the Pearl Harbor entrance buoy and alerted the destroyer USS Ward. That midget probably entered Pearl Harbor, but Ward sank another at 06:37 in the first American shots fired in World War II. A midget on the north side of Ford Island missed the seaplane tender Curtiss with her first torpedo and missed the attacking destroyer Monaghan with her other one before being sunk by Monaghan at 08:43.

The HA. 19 (Japanese Midget Submarine) (also known as Japanese Midget Submarine "C") is a historic I.J.N. Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine that was part of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Orders for this submarine were to enter Pearl Harbor. However, it did not enter the harbor, and it was grounded and captured. The submarine was put on display at NAS Key West, Key West, Florida, but is now in Fredericksburg, Texas.

The Consolidated PBY Catalina was an American flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s produced by Consolidated Aircraft. It was one of the most widely used multi-role aircraft of World War II. PBYs served with every branch of the US military and in the air forces and navies of many other nations. In the United States Army Air Forces and later in the USAF their designation was the OA-10, while Canadian-built PBYs were known as the Canso.

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