December 7, 1941, the day of the attack. At that moment the minesweeper Condor sighted an underwater periscope. This instructed the first shots of the Pacific War. The sighting of the periscope signaled the destroyer USS Ward to destroy the periscope, calling it "A Shot for Prosperity" by the Americans for being the first shot of the war. After being shot down, the Americans were able to confirm that the submarine was a Japanese Midget submarine. The Japanese Midget submarine was familiar after being used in World War II when they were originally built. USS Ward contacted Pearl Harbor and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet, after the first hit. Kimmel overlooked the sighting as this type of behavior by hostile submarines was to be expected at this time with expectations of impending war, he decided to "Wait for report verification". Which leads to the next signal, when an American PYB patrol plane spotted another periscope just three hours after the first. This periscope was also shot down by USS Ward. Both periscopes spotted were part of the five Japanese Midget submarines that attempted to enter Pearl Harbor. All five midget submarines were sent to attack certain targets within the Pearl Harbor base, but none of them succeeded. Of the five submarines, only one confirmed that the two 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 launches missed their targets and were unsuccessful. Of the remaining three Japanese submarines, one was destroyed, another ran aground without firing its torpedoes, and the last one is a mystery. Seeing all five of these 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 it