Though built at Newport News, VA, it became a fixture in the Pacific for the majority of its career. I don't know where to find the article, but someone had linked a article to this explaining that not only had the guys lived but they could be heard for days tapping on the ship trying to get rescued. Mervyn S. Bennion received a posthumous Medal of Honor for saving the ship while he lay dying from shrapnel that pierced his abdomen.. One of the men who carried the dying captain from the fight was Navy Cook Dorie Miller who then returned to the fight. The ship returned to Pear Harbor, fueled, and rushed into the Pacific War. West Virginia (right) sunk alongside Tennessee after the attack. Within the storeroom was a calendar and they had crossed off every day that they had been alive – 16 days had been crossed off using a red pencil. They didn't have the tech to safely retrieve them and the tapping eventually stopped on New Years eve.My great uncle was one of the underwater welders after the attack tasked with extraction. West Virginia pounded Japanese positions on Leyte during the Army's Oct. 17 invasion of the Japanese-held Philippines. On the night of Oct. 24, West Virginia and three other battleships resurrected after Pearl Harbor spotted four Japanese ships approaching the Philippines. When salvage crews raised the battleship West Virginia six months after the Pearl Harbor attacks, they found the bodies of three sailors huddled in an airtight storeroom — …
They could not get to these trapped sailors in time. They were Ronald Endicott, 18, Clifford Olds, 20, and Louis Costin, 21. When the noises were first heard many thought it was just loose wreckage or part of the clean-up operation for the destroyed harbour.However the day after the attack, crewmen realised that there was an eerie banging noise coming from the foward hull of the USS West Virginia, which had sunk in the harbour.It didn’t take long for the crew and Marines based at the harbour to realise that there was nothing they could do. Archived. It was the West Virginia left for some small repairs but returned and supported other operations in the Philippines until Feb. 1945. Months later rescue and salvage men who raised the USS West Virginia found the bodies of three men who had found an airlock in a storeroom but had eventually run out of air.They were Ronald Endicott, 18, Clifford Olds, 20, and Louis Costin, 21. It took them … She is the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for West Virginia, the 35th state, and the 11th of 18 Ohio-class submarines. Photo: US Navy. The final ship of the Colorado-class of battleship, USS West Virginia (BB-48) entered service in 1923. USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) is a United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. Knowing West Virginia was going down, the captain and crew counter-flooded the starboard side of the ship so that is would go down on its keel instead of capsizing. Holy fuck that's gut wrenching, the sense of overwhelming relief of "someones out there trying to get me!" During the battle the ship took seven torpedo hits along the port side along with two bomb strikes around its superstructure. In 1959, it was sold for scrap. The USS Utah also still lay on the bottom of Pearl Harbor, its rusted hull is still visible on the south shore of Ford Island. Jan 29, 2012 #1 Currently reading "Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor" I do recommend the book Often you hear / read about the crews rescued from inside the USS Oklahoma but no many know that men were trapped in the West Virginia as well. Entire decks and much of the armor belt had to be replaced. West Virginia was present in Tokyo Bay Sep. 2 when the Japanese formally surrendered to the U.S. USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) USS West Virginia (SSBN-736), during alpha sea trials off the United States East Coast in 1989. Pearl Harbor Went Badly For America, But The USS West Virginia's Crew Had It Worst Of All In the aftermath of the attack frantic efforts were made to save survivors trapped … It contains information about the ship's involvement in Pearl Harbor as well as information about its overall history. The men would have been below deck when the attack happened, so it is unlikely that they knew what was happening.Those who survived the attack and were crew on the USS West Virginia have remembered the story and retold it quietly as a story of bravery and determination of the young soldiers.In truth, the US Navy had never told their families how long the three men had survived for, instead telling them that they had been killed in the attack on the harbour. The USS West Virginia burns in Pearl Harbor. The ship rapidly flooded, settling on the floor of the harbor with her superstructure above water. On Dec. 7, 1941 the West Virginia was struck by torpedoes launched from a midget sub and immediately began sinking.
Nauticus commemorates the 70th anniversary of USS Wisconsin returning from WWII on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack.
Did they know Pearl Harbor was active?New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castYou learn something new every day; what did you learn today? [Repost] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... 739 comments. And rightly so because of the massive loss of life on that famous ship. Then bang, bang, pause. USS West Virginia (BB-48) was the fourth dreadnought battleship of the Colorado class, though because Washington was cancelled, she was the third and final member of the class to be completed. Sailors in a motor launch rescue a man overboard alongside the burning West Virginia during, or shortly after, the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. BB48 sank into the Harbor amid burning oil.