[gandalftb]

As I sailed out of port last year on the USS Bonhomme Richard, the ship’s company, as available assembled on the flight deck. As we passed the memorials, all saluted and there was complete silence.

What really amazed me, seeing it for the first time was the still-standing aircraft control tower. It is pockmarked with bullet holes from the attack. It has never been repaired or painted over. I was told that it is a grim reminder to every sailor and Marine to be ever vigilant and never forget.

My Dad was on the USS Phoenix, forward watch, when the attack started. Semper fi to them all.

[Pamlico]

Wow! My dad was also on the USS Phoenix during the attack. He spent most of the war with her. He said they just sat there for the first 30 minutes waiting for the boilers to develope enough steam so they could get underway. Fortunately as a cruiser, they were not targeted by the Japs.

[fallujah-nuker]

My Dad was on the USS Phoenix, forward watch, when the attack started. Semper fi to them all.

Transferred to Argentina after the war and renamed General Belgrano, and sunk by a British submarine during the 1982 Falklands War. Last ship at Pearl Harbor to be sunk in combat.