Re: This Day in History

Bill Penrose <penrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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In the hours and days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it
was obvious that men still remained trapped in the wreckage of many of
the sunken US warships. The imprisoned sailors usually signaled for
help by pounding on the bulkheads of the compartments they occupied.
The sound propagated through the hull and would emanate from the parts
of the sunken ships that were still above water.

Some of the men trapped inside the sunken ships were eventually saved.
But not all.

The attack damaged or sank all of the eight battleships that were
anchored at Pearl Harbor. Returning the sunken ships to duty was a
high priority issue for the Navy, and eventually, all but two
battleships ("Arizona" and "Oklahoma") were repaired. Salvaging the
sunken battleships was a difficult job that was made particular grim
by the bodies that were found in the wreckage.

In late spring of 1942, the heavily damaged "West Virginia" was
refloated and moved into drydock. During repairs, three bodies were
found in an isolated compartment. The deceased were enlisted sailors
Clifford Olds, Ronald Endicott, and Louis Costin. Exhausted batteries
and open ration containers indicted that the three men had survived
for some time after the "West Virginia" was sunk.

A calendar was found in the compartment with the days marked off. The
last day marked was December 23.
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DB

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