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Old 04-10-08, 04:54 AM   #4
Torplexed
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I think what people are after is the post attack ambiance. Smoke in the air, oil, flotsam in the water. There should be wrecked planes at Hickam Field on Ford Island. Salvage rigs in place. Some ships like the light cruiser Raleigh struggling to stay afloat. Most of the battleships sunk at Pearl bottomed level in the shallow harbor and had water up to their main batteries. The true BB wrecks were Arizona (blown up) and Oklahoma (capsized & later sank under tow) and the old target ship Utah (capsized). The remaining six battlehips were eventually raised and repaired within a few months of the attack. All in all the salvage crews did a remarkable job. Even the very heavily damaged destroyers Shaw, Cassin and Downes which look like total write-offs in post-attack pictures were rebuilt and returned to service.
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