Pearl Harbor - the Local

Pearl Harbor - the Local Connection- A U of Hawaii research team has apparently found the Japanese submarine long reputed to have been sunk by the American destroyer USS Aaron Ward, early on the morning of December 7, 1941.

The local connection? The forward ("A") four-inch gun on the Ward that sank the submarine was manned by a crew of Minnesota Navy reservists.

And that same gun currently sits on the grounds of the MN Department of Transportation building, just southeast of the Capitol, in the park area east of the MNDOT headquarters, just north of the Police Memorial.