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  • Discovery of Japanese sub proves sailors of USS Ward hit target in 1941

    12/08/2002 3:35:30 PM PST · by ex-Texan · 60 replies · 1,977+ views
    Discovery of Japanese sub proves sailors of USS Ward hit target in 1941BY BILL GARDNER ST. PAUL, Minn. - (KRT) - On Dec. 7, 61 years ago, a group of Navy reservists from St. Paul, Minn., fired the first American shots of World War II, sinking a Japanese two-man submarine trying to sneak into Pearl Harbor a little more than an hour before the attack. Yes, the men on the USS Ward not only fired the shots. They sank the sub. They've been saying that for 61 years, but not everyone believed the Ward actually sank the sub. There was...