Posted on 12/07/2013 7:05:11 AM PST by PghBaldy
Can only post title and link (as it is Honolulu Advertiser & Seattle PI). NO EXCERPTS. Not a long article, but a very good one.
(Excerpt) Read more at community.seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
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Fine. If Gannett doesn’t want to play nice, tell us in your own words what happened.
How horrible.
RIP.
Three men lived for 16 days trapped in the USS West Virginia. Rescue, even if they knew about them, would be tough. Other rescues ended badly. The parents of at least one of the men were never told. Some of the siblings knew, years later. One woman found out her brother lived for 16 days, ony from reading about him in the newspaper in 1995.
Link at the very top works — please read about these men who were trapped and died at their battle station for 16 days after Dec 7th.
R.I.P.
Wow. That sucks. RIP.
Men trapped in sunken ships at PH were declared dead officially on the day of the attack. But some men were trapped underwater for 16 days. They found a calendar with they days marked off.
Many of the men who knew about this kept it quiet to keep the families from further grief.
I have read that some on the OKLAHOMA lasted as long or longer. Some of the guards around the area requested a change of duty as the constant tapping of the trapped men was too unnerving.
I remember seeing a photo of one of the upside down ships that had several torch cut holes in the exposed bottom...
Good summary here with pictures of sailors. Believe calendar is in stat capital of West Virginia archives — was one time.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?attachment_id=38768
72 years ago today and I haven’t heard a word about it on the news.......
The sad part is that in some instances, the air escaped before the holes were completely cut and the guys drowned.
Thanks for the ping. I went to the link. A terrible story. May they rest in peace.
Never Forget.
Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver’s Memoir
by Edward C. Raymer.
Great read!
How tragic ...
A couple of more:
“Trapped at Pearl Harbor: Escape from Battleship Oklahoma” by Stephen Bower Young.
and “Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor” by Daniel Madsen.
Both Naval Institute Press.
Thank you for the info.
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