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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1830618" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t31.0-8/10499403_297259647124254_6930956471366510656_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800-ton USS West Virginia. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard.USS West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 35th state.Shortly before 0800, Japanese planes, flying from a six-carrier task force, commenced a well-planned attack on Pearl Harbor. Seven 18 inches aerial torpedoes struck the port side of West Virginia. One or possibly two torpedoes entered the ship through holes made by the first torpedoes while the ship was listing and exploded on the armored second deck. She was also hit by two Type-99 #80 Mk5 bombs made from 16 in armor-piercing naval shells fitted with fins.Prompt counter-flooding by the four damage control parties under the command of LCDR J.S. Harper, First Lieutenant together with the early closure of all water doors and hatches ordered by Harper's assistant Ensign Archie P. Kelley prevented the ship from capsizing.With a patch over the damaged area of her hull, the battleship was pumped out and ultimately re-floated on May 17th, 1942, and docked in Dry-dock #1 on the 9th June.During the ensuing repairs, workers located 66 bodies of West Virginia sailors who had been trapped below when the ship sank. Three bodies were found in a storeroom compartment, where the sailors had lived on emergency rations and fresh water from a battle station. A calendar found with them indicated they had lived through to December 23. The task confronting the nucleus crew and shipyard workers was a monumental one, so great was the damage on the battleship's port side. Ultimately, however, West Virginia departed Pearl Harbor on May 7th, 1943, for the west coast and a complete rebuilding at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington</blockquote>

Verificación: Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982