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Originally Posted by Admiral Von Gerlach
All of the BB's except for Arizona were eventually salved to some degree or another, except for Utah which was a gunnery target I believe.
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A painful payback for the Japanese. Admiral Nagumo who commanded the Japanese carrier fleet during the raid, fell from grace after the Midway and Guadalcanal debacles and was eventually demoted to various unimportant posts before being given command of a small naval flotilla in the Marianas. During the US invasion of Saipan in 1944, he ruefully noted that many of the battleships his fleet had sunk in Pearl Harbor back in 1941, were now bombarding the island he was trapped on. He committed suicide a few days later.