[SandRat]

The light cruiser USS St. Louis, right, nears the listing USS California, left, during her breakout at about 9:40 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941. The overturned USS Oklahoma can be seen in the background. (Photo from the National Archives, provided by Michael Backauskas)

Floyd Turner, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, recollects what happened to him on that day. (Ed Honda-Herald/Review)

The USS St. Louis during a speed trial in 1939. (Photo from the U.S. NAVY, provided by Michael Backauskas)

Floyd Turner made this clock, which commemorates the attack on Pearl Harbor. Turner survived the Japanese attack that day. The clock is on display at the Henry Hauser Museum located at the Ethel Berger Center. The museum has a display about World War II. (Ed Honda-Herald/Review)

[SandRat]

Pearl Harbor Day

[skeeter]

Many of us haven’t forgotten & never will.

[VOA]

For reference...with the warning that the servers seem to be running
slow (overloaded today?) at these sites:

St. Louis
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s17/st_louis-v.htm

The Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

My favorite BIL was on the USS New Orleans during the attack.
The Chaplain on this great Ship was the one who said these
famous words “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition”.
Later in the war, the ship was hit by a torpedo and the bow
was blown off between turrets one and two.

This great crew saved the ship by backing it onto an atoll.
They made a temporary bow out of scrap and palm tree logs.
This allowed the ship to go at half speed to Australia where a
new bow was fabricated.
Being an old hand he was transferred to a new DE, the USS Laws and served on it until the war was won.

[skeeter]

Turner believes it is because the USS Nevada still had wooden planks on her deck, making the ship look like an aircraft carrier.

The writer must have confused Nevada with the old USS Utah, which was not only occupying a carrier berth during the attack but, as a converted target ship, had heavy wooden planks covering her decks to protect her from dummy bomb strikes which supposedly gave her the appearance of being a carrier.

The Japanese wasted three or four torpedoes sinking her.

They knew what kind of ship Nevada was & exactly why they wanted to sink her.

[VOA]

Sunday Evening bump...for a fine thread