The First Photos of a Pearl Harbor Warship’s Watery Grave
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The First Photos of a Pearl Harbor Warship’s Watery Grave
They had found the Ward, the destroyer that fired on
and sank a Japanese midget submarine outside Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 — the first American shot "in anger" in World War II, naval historians say.
Supported by The destroyer, the first to fire a shot "in anger" in Pearl Harbor at the start of the American involvement
in World War II, was photographed this month at the bottom of the waters off the Philippines, where it sank in 1944.
By Christine Hauser Nearly 73 years after the Ward, an American navy destroyer, was attacked by Japanese kamikaze planes
and sank in waters off the Philippines, a team aboard the research and exploration vessel Petrel gathered anxiously, all eyes fixed on screens in front of them.
Paul Mayer said that These ships are war graves,
After its crew had abandoned ship, it was scuttled by another American destroyer in the area, the O’Brien,
on Dec. 7, 1944 — exactly three years to the day after it fired on the Japanese submarine at Pearl Harbor.
In November, the Petrel, which has equipment that can explore and retrieve data 20,000 feet underwater, captured footage of five Japanese battle ships
that were lost during the Battle of Surigao Strait in the Philippines on Oct. 25, 1944, one of the largest naval battles in history, with more than 4,000 men killed.
They had found the Ward, the destroyer that fired on
and sank a Japanese midget submarine outside Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 — the first American shot "in anger" in World War II, naval historians say.
Supported by The destroyer, the first to fire a shot "in anger" in Pearl Harbor at the start of the American involvement
in World War II, was photographed this month at the bottom of the waters off the Philippines, where it sank in 1944.
By Christine Hauser Nearly 73 years after the Ward, an American navy destroyer, was attacked by Japanese kamikaze planes
and sank in waters off the Philippines, a team aboard the research and exploration vessel Petrel gathered anxiously, all eyes fixed on screens in front of them.
Paul Mayer said that These ships are war graves,
After its crew had abandoned ship, it was scuttled by another American destroyer in the area, the O’Brien,
on Dec. 7, 1944 — exactly three years to the day after it fired on the Japanese submarine at Pearl Harbor.
In November, the Petrel, which has equipment that can explore and retrieve data 20,000 feet underwater, captured footage of five Japanese battle ships
that were lost during the Battle of Surigao Strait in the Philippines on Oct. 25, 1944, one of the largest naval battles in history, with more than 4,000 men killed.