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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
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