Having taken six torpedo hits
and two bomb strikes in the first wave attack on Battleship Row,
the West Virginia is ablaze, her bows already low in the
water and decks awash. Ignoring the risk, crews push the Navy
tug Hoga alongside with fire-fighting equipment and to
pick up survivors. Overhead, Japanese Zeroes swoop through the
smoke, aiming the second wave attack at installations on Pearl
Harbor’s Ford Island, to complete one of history’s
most devastating unprovoked declarations of war. Signed by eight
survivors of the Dec.7th. attack.
Issued with a reproduction WWII Pearl Harbor poster. (see below) |