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Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Shaw

May 28, 2018 ·

In the history books, chapters about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor are often accompanied by an iconic image: the explosion of a ship taken from a distance. The ship in the image is the destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373). The snapshot was taken just as fires ignited when she was hit by three […]

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Tennessee

May 22, 2018 ·

On April 30, 1919, a new battleship class was launched. Named for its lead ship, the Tennessee-class offered more robust protection from enemy torpedoes as well as fire-control systems for both primary and secondary gun batteries. USS Tennessee (BB-43) and her sister ship, USS California (BB-44), were the first to be designed to shoot over […]

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Pennsylvania

May 10, 2018 ·

Unlike the others seven US Navy battleships present at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) wasn't lined up on Battleship Row along the southeast coast of Ford Island, and therefore avoided the major damage those ships sustained in the Japanese attack. USS Pennsylvania Before Pearl Harbor Following her […]

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Raleigh

May 08, 2018 ·

The USS Utah (AG-16), originally commissioned as a battleship designated (BB-31), had long been demilitarized and used as a target ship. Unarmed, she posed no threat, a fact the leaders of the attack on Pearl Harbor were aware of. Unfortunately, two attacking pilots misjudged and fired on the vessel, sinking her and putting in harm's […]

Wreckage of Japanese Destroyer Isokaze Located

May 04, 2018 ·

The Japanese 1st Air Fleet, or kido butai, that attacked Pearl Harbor was made up of six aircraft carriers escorted by a full complement of battleships, cruisers, tankers, and destroyers. In the long and bloody war that followed, most of those ships were lost. Among them was the destroyer Isokaze, whose wreckage was recently located. In 2016, […]

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Bagley

April 30, 2018 ·

To have a US Navy ship named in one's honor is a great achievement. One American naval officer had four. Ensign Worth Bagley was killed during the Spanish-American War, in 1898, and the third ship named for him, the destroyer USS Bagley (DD-386), was present at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. Ensign […]

The Morning of Pearl Harbor – Battle of Hong Kong

April 27, 2018 ·

On the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor fell victim to a surprise Japanese attack. The assault would go down in history as one of the worst foreign attacks ever launched against the United States. Though this attack stunned an unprepared United States, it wasn't Japan's only target […]

Operation Barney: Revenge for a Lost Submarine

April 23, 2018 ·

Today, the Bowfin submarine is a museum ship and memorial park, one of the Pearl Harbor Historic Sites. Launched one year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she spent the next two and a half years living up to her nickname, the Pearl Harbor Avenger. Her ninth—and final—World War II patrol was as […]

Wreckage of USS Helena Located

April 13, 2018 ·

On April 11, 2018, a research team headed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered the wreckage of the USS Helena (CL-50, the team's third World War II-era shipwreck discovery of the year. The St. Louis-class light cruiser was commissioned into the US Navy on September 18, 1939 and served until her sinking on July 6, […]

Absent by Fate: USS Lexington and Pearl Harbor

April 02, 2018 ·

The USS Lexington (CV-2), an iconic warship of the US Navy, wasn't originally intended to be an aircraft carrier. When her construction was first authorized, in 1916, she was meant to be a battlecruiser. Her keel wasn’t laid down until 1921, as anti-submarine vessels and merchant ships took priority. This delay ultimately saved the Fore River […]

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Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Shaw

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Tennessee

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Pennsylvania

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Raleigh

Wreckage of Japanese Destroyer Isokaze Located

Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Bagley

The Morning of Pearl Harbor – Battle of Hong Kong

Operation Barney: Revenge for a Lost Submarine

Wreckage of USS Helena Located

Absent by Fate: USS Lexington and Pearl Harbor

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