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and the American Fleet was laid out at the side. To this day she still entombs as many
instant of attack, but the dynamics of as 40 seamen.
where various ships that were underway
or which managed to get underway are USS RALEIGH Despite a near-capsizing
also shown. Descriptions of the attack, due to a torpedo blast, the RALEIGH
from the vantage of the respective ships crew downed five Japanese aircraft and
appear on the map are as follows: suffered no fatalities.
USS MONAGHAN At 7:51am this USS SOLACE Japanese bombers
Destroyer got underway to join the respected the SOLACE as a hospital ship,
WARD in guarding the Pearl Harbor with its white paint and red cross.
entrance. As she passed between Launches from the SOLACE went out
during the attack, picking up wounded
CURTISS and TANGIER, both were men from flaming waters.
firing at a midget sub. The MONAGHAN
powered forward to flank speed and USS PHOENIX "Lucky Phoenix", a light
rammed the sub and tossed two depth cruiser, steamed past the flaming
charges for good measure. On Dec. 17, Battleship Row and out to sea without
1944,a powerful typhoon near the being hit. Observers on the PHOENIX
Philippines did what the enemy could not saw the incoming Japanese planes and her
do in three years of battle. Only six men crewmen immediately began firing at the
survived as the ship was lost at sea in the enemy. One nearby bomb burst killed one
storm. of her crew, her only loss during the entire
war.
USS CURTISS The crew began firing on
the incoming Japanese planes and downed USS NEVADA Attempted to sortie to sea
three of them. Unfortunately one of them at 8:40am. Just reaching the Floating
crashed into the ship and set her afire. Just Drydock YFD-2, her captain had to beach
before, at 8:06am, she spotted an enemy her to prevent sinking in the Harbor
sub off her starboard quarter and Channel. The vessel had been struck by
successfully summoned the destroyer one torpedo at mooring and five 250kg
MONAGHAN for the kill. bombs along the way. Tugs helped her
across the channel where she was beached
USS UTAH This semi-retired ship was off the Waipio Peninsula. One year later
being used for target practice by the repaired ship rejoined the Fleet, and
American pilots. It was hit by two went on to take part in the Normandy
torpedoes in the opening moments of the invasion, the invasion of Southern France,
attack and the ship capsized. She was and the Battle of Okinawa.
deemed unsalvageable and left on her
