sugar and pineapples. After the torpedo missed, she surfaced and attacked Donerail with gunfire, firing twenty rounds. As Donerail′s crew abandoned ship, one shell struck her starboard lifeboat while it still hung in its davits, completely destroying it and killing everyone in it. Donerail sank two hours later at . Meanwhile, I-10′s crew opened machine gun fire on her survivors. Twenty-seven of Donerail′s passengers and crew died in the sinking and subsequent massacre, leaving only 16 alive. Of the 42 people aboard Donerail, only eight ultimately survived, reaching Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands 38 days later. On 12 December 1941, I-10 was reassigned to the Advance Force, and that day she received orders to proceed to the United States West Coast and patrol in an area off San Diego, California. On 13 December 1941, Japanese Imperial General Headquarters ordered the submarines of the 6th Fleet to bombard the U.S. West Coast. On 14 December 1941, the 6th Fleet′s commander, Vice Admiral Mitsumi Shimizu, in turn ordered I-10 and the submarines , I-15, I-17, , , , I-25, and each to fire 30 rounds at targets on the U.S. West Coast on the evening of 25 December 1941, with the commander of Submarine Squadron 1, Rear Admiral Tsutomu Sato. aboard I-9 in overall command of the bombardment. On 22 December 1941 the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, postponed the bombardment until 27 December. On 27 December 1941, Sato cancelled the bombardment because most of the submarines tasked with carrying it out were low on fuel. I-10′s time off the U.S. West Coast otherwise passed quietly. On 9 January 1942 she was reassigned directly to 6th Fleet headquarters, and on 11 January 1942 she arrived at Kwajalein. January–April 1942 After an overnight stay at Kwajalein, I-10 departed on 12 January 1942 bound for Yokosuka, which she reached on 21 January 1942. While in Japan, she was reassigned to Submarine Squadron 8 on 10 March 1942. On 12 March, she got underway from Yokosuka to search for and attack the aircraft carriers of U.S. Navy Task Force 17, which had conducted the Lae-Salamaua Raid against Japanese forces landing on the northeast coast of New Guinea on 10 March, but she had no success, and she returned to Japan, arriving at Kure on 20 March 1942. During I-10′s stay in Japan, the German naval staff in Berlin formally requested on 27