December 7, 1941, the day of the attack. At this time, an underwater periscope was spotted by the minesweeper Condor. This is what fired the first shots in the Pacific War. The detection of the periscope prompted the destroyer USS Ward to destroy the periscope, calling it a "prosperity shot" by the Americans because it was the first shot of the war. After being shot down, the Americans were able to confirm that it was a Japanese midget submarine. The Japanese Midget submarine was familiar after being used in World War II when it was initially built. The USS Ward contacted Pearl Harbor and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet, after the first shot was fired. Kimmel neglected the scouting because this kind of behavior from hostile submarines was expected at that time with expectations of a coming war, he decided to "wait for the report to be verified." Which brings us to the next sign when a US PYB patrol plane spotted another periscope just three hours after the first. This periscope was also shot down by the USS Ward. The two periscopes spotted were among five Japanese midget submarines that attempted to enter Pearl Harbor. The five midget submarines were sent to attack certain targets within the Pearl Harbor base, but none of them were successful. Of the five submarines, only one confirmed that both torpedoes had been fired. Another submarine was found without its two torpedoes, but it was not confirmed that they had been fired at their targets. Both shots missed their target and failed. Of the three remaining Japanese submarines, one was destroyed, another ran aground without firing its torpedoes, and the last is a mystery. In view of these five attacks and their effects, the Japanese periscope attacks were classified as a failure. The Americans, knowing the intelligence information from the previous paragraph and seeing