Pearl Harbor midget subs

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Needs more HAMM's references.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Oh please don't encourage him Jason

A proper 'tot' for great MN gunnery!

On the south-west lawn of the Minnesota Capitol Mall the USS Ward gun announces your arrival to the Memorial. This 4"/50 caliber gun signaled that our nation was at war when it fired America’s first shot of World War II, and sinking a Japanese midget submarine, at Pearl Harbor on that fateful day on December 7, 1941". < the First shot Crew of Minnesotans. Virtually all of the crew except the skipper was from Saint Paul Minnesota.. Some fine MINNESTOA handiwork that day! Footnote to history: On the morning of 7 December, three years to the day after her No. 1 gun fired the opening shot of America's involvement in the war, she was patrolling off the invasion area when she came under attack by several Japanese kamikazes. One bomber hit her hull amidships, bringing her to a dead stop. When the resulting fires could not be controlled, USS Ward '​s crew was ordered to abandon ship, and she was sunk by gunfire from O'Brien, whose commanding officer, William W. Outerbridge, had been in command of Ward during her action off Pearl Harbor three years before.