On December 7th 1941 at 7:48 am Japanese aircraft strike Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Were these the first shot of the war in the Pacific Ocean…NO. The American Destroyer USS Anteres fired on a Japanese submarine at 5:45 am. The second shot sank the submarine and the two men aboard that submarine became the first casualties of the war in the Pacific.

(Magazine – Archaeology – January/February 2017)