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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.

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My Dad saw the photo on the newspaper front page the day the General Belgrano was sunk, but the article didn’t name it as the former USS Phoenix.

He looked at the photo and said “That’s the Phoenix, I served on her”. Some things you never forget. That triggered the only time he talked about Pearl Harbor.