What the records say
- When
- 7 Dec 1941 – 13 Dec 1941
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 21.87° N, 160.22° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Niʻihau incident.
Niʻihau incident
1941 Japanese crash landing in Hawaii, US
The Niʻihau incident occurred on December 7–13, 1941, when the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi crash-landed on the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Imperial Japanese Navy had mistakenly designated Niʻihau as an uninhabited island for damaged aircraft to land and await rescue.
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