[Kathy in Alaska]

Wow, Valin, thanks for a story that I had not heard before yesterday. Thanks for filling in a lot of details about the aftermath, or lack thereof, of the USS Ward and the sinking of the Japanese sub.

[Valin]

A strange coincidence?

On December 7, 1944, USS Ward was hit by a kamikazi and turned into a blazing wreck and ordered abandoned. The USS O'Brien (DD-725) was ordered to sink the burning and abandoned Ward, and promptly did so with gunfire. The commanding officer of the USS O'Brien was LCDR William W. Outerbridge, who was also the commanding officer of the USS Ward on December 7, 1941, when the Ward fired the first shot of the Pacific war.


17 posted on 12/07/2002 11:00 AM CST by aomagrat