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I-20 the C-1 Class & HA-20 Midget Sub at Pearl Harbor

S559 - I-20 - 1/72 scale WWII Japanese Submarine with mini Sub  58.5" long  "Coming 2008"

The first shots of the Pacific War began when the USS Ward sank HA-20 with a shot from it's 3" guns three hours prior to the
Pearl Harbor attack. Five mother ships and their midgets were lying in wait at the entrance of Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.
The mother ships I-16, I-18, I-20, 1-22 and I-24 all launched their midgets to go into the Harbor and sink ships.
All were sunk except for HA-24 which grounded at Hickham Field Beach and was salvaged and used as a US Bond drive incentive
in America. It's pilot was the first Japanese prisoner of war. The mother subs, designed in the mid-thirties continued on in the war.
All were fitted by the end of November 1941, to carry the Midgets t Pearl Harbor.

IJN I-20 was one of the C1 type submarines developed from the KD6 Class. With a typical compliment of 101 crew members,
they could cruise at 23 knots when surfaced and 8 knots submerged. The deepest they could go was 330 feet. The after casing
(space after the conning tower) was reserved for the fitting of one Type A midget submarine. The U.S. forces sank all, I-22 in
1942, I-18, I-20, I-24 in 1943 and I-16 in 1944.