Originally Posted by Vendzilla

While living in Pearl Harbor when I was in the Navy, we would go out to ford island for different kinds of training and you can still see the bullet holes left over from that attack. One of the main points that the Japanese used for navigation was the dive tower on the sub base, my barracks were right next to that.

Also, Sunday, 7 December 1941, the USS Tautog SS199 was at the Submarine Base when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Within minutes of the first Japanese bomb explosions on Ford Island, Tautog's gun crews went into action and, with the help of Narwhal (SS-167) and a destroyer, shot down a Japanese torpedo bomber as it came over Merry Point. The Tautog went on to sink more tonnage than any other submarine or any other ship in ww2. The submarine I was on was the USS Tautog, SSN 639.

In WW2, Submarines made up 2 % of the fleet and sank around 90% of the ships( By Tonnage)