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To: X Fretensis

I remember the West Virginia was either sunk or heavily damaged at Pearl Harbor. It was repaired and eventually got back in the war.


17 posted on 12/21/2014 4:49:50 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

She was raised off the Pearl Harbor bottom mid May of 42.
She was made sea worth and sailed for Bremeton Naval Ship Yard in mid May 1943. Modernization was completed in July 1944. She finished in the war anchored in Tokyo Bay a few hundred yard from the USS Missouri during Jap surrender ceremony.


40 posted on 12/21/2014 6:40:52 PM PST by X Fretensis (How)
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To: yarddog

Surigao Strait was revenge for Pearl Harbor. USS West Virginia USS Maryland USS Pennsylvania USS California crossed the Japanese “T” and destroyed that whole group


49 posted on 12/22/2014 2:37:54 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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