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Pearl Harbor: 16 Days To Die – Three Sailors trapped in the USS West Virginia
War History Online ^ | January 1, 2016 | George Winston

Posted on 12/07/2016 7:07:44 AM PST by PghBaldy

In the aftermath of the attacks on Pearl Harbour during World War Two stories emerged of sailors who were trapped in the sunken battleships, some even survived for weeks.

Those who were trapped underwater banged continuously on the side of the ship so that anyone would hear them and come to their rescue. When the noises were first heard many thought it was just loose wreckage or part of the clean-up operation for the destroyed harbour.

However the day after the attack, crewmen realised that there was an eerie banging noise coming from the foward hull of the USS West Virginia, which had sunk in the harbour.

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To: Bull Snipe

Hopefully your dad and those other surviving crewman took solace the American spirits among them were benevolent protectors who were there to help them!

21 posted on 12/07/2016 9:35:35 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: knittnmom; JimRed; DesertRhino

oh duh me. Thanx !


22 posted on 12/07/2016 9:56:54 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: rfreedom4u

My late father who served in the Army between 1939 and 1963 hated ( not really a strong enough word) all things Asian!


23 posted on 12/07/2016 10:00:35 AM PST by shotgun
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To: shotgun

“hated ( not really a strong enough word)”

Execrated? http://www.dictionary.com/browse/execrate


24 posted on 12/07/2016 10:05:08 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: livius; PghBaldy

It still gives me nightmares and I always pray for these sailors in their horrible slow death, just as I pray for the poor people entombed under the WTC, who also took weeks to die.
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In some mysterious fashion it could be merciful to die a slow painful death, though my natural person wishes it on no one nor wish it for myself.

The reason is that it can help one stop to reflect on how long eternity really is and how awful it will be to spend an eternity of torment in hell. For many a slow painful death may be the only thing in their lifetime that will get their attention and hopefully it will lead to a complete and perfect contrition for their sins, and produce the fruit of a longing for God and heaven which they had never dreamed was possible.

http://www.barnhardt.biz/2016/12/02/how-long-is-eternity-or-tell-me-more-about-how-i-take-all-of-this-catholicism-stuff-way-too-seriously/


25 posted on 12/07/2016 10:07:05 AM PST by Repent and Believe (The Son of Man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, faith on earth? Jesus Christ (Luke 18:8))
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To: NobleFree

That’s probably about a close as it can get!

I modified the example from the dictionary and added that little extra at the end to truly capture his feelings.

He execrated all Asian people and would remind them he used to shoot them in the wars!


26 posted on 12/07/2016 10:17:01 AM PST by shotgun
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To: PghBaldy

PFL


27 posted on 12/07/2016 10:18:49 AM PST by Batman11 (“How sweet it is! —Jackie Gleason")
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To: Repent and Believe
as I pray for the poor people entombed under the WTC, who also took weeks to die.

What? I never knew that! Wow! SOURCE?

28 posted on 12/07/2016 11:00:32 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: livius; DCBryan1

“...the poor people entombed under the WTC, who also took weeks to die.” - livius

“What? I never knew that! Wow! SOURCE?” - DCBryan1

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livius, do you HAVE a source for the claim re. WTC?


29 posted on 12/07/2016 11:07:33 AM PST by Repent and Believe (The Son of Man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, faith on earth? Jesus Christ (Luke 18:8))
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To: Blue Jays

My dad was not on WV when she sank. He was on CV-5 USS Yorktown sitting in dry dock # 1 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. He and about half of the Yorktown engineering personnel were assigned to the West Virginia after Yorktown was sunk at Midway in June 1942. His first job on WV was to help clean 5 feet of mud out of one of the engine rooms. He said that they did uncover two bodies of WV sailors that were killed when she was sunk.


30 posted on 12/07/2016 11:14:40 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: livius

It still gives me nightmares and I always pray for these sailors in their horrible slow death, just as I pray for the poor people entombed under the WTC, who also took weeks to die.


I had not heard about people being trapped at the WTC, who took weeks to die.
Where did you get that information?


31 posted on 12/07/2016 12:31:56 PM PST by kygolfman
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To: stylin19a

“haunting is right. I wonder how they had any concept of time.”

I am guessing their wrist watches.


32 posted on 12/07/2016 1:28:48 PM PST by ConsCA
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To: PghBaldy

There is a new film about the USS Oklahoma. They interviewed one of the men who was trapped, and how they could the activity of the rescue attempts. He trapped for about 30 hours. This films follows 3 or 4 families, and one was bringing home for proper burial the remains of a family member who served on the Oklahoma.


33 posted on 12/07/2016 1:34:24 PM PST by ConsCA
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To: ConsCA

thanks. I didn’t think of that.


34 posted on 12/07/2016 1:37:19 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: ConsCA

Thank you for the info. I will keep an eye out for it


35 posted on 12/07/2016 2:13:06 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: kygolfman

It was in the NYC press later, and in fact even during the weeks afterwards they knew that there were people they simply would not be able to reach. When they finally excavated areas at the bottom, they found pockets (such as under stairs) with people who had been trapped in them.


36 posted on 12/07/2016 2:34:23 PM PST by livius
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To: PghBaldy

The film about the USS Oklahoma.

http://www.pbs.org/program/pearl-harbor-uss-oklahoma-final-story/


37 posted on 12/07/2016 4:45:25 PM PST by ConsCA
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To: livius

Thank you


38 posted on 12/07/2016 5:09:55 PM PST by kygolfman
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