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Old Diver
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Not All Bad
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12/8/2017 3:12:54 PM
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In one way we were a bit lucky at the attack. The ships were in port and sunk in shallow water. If they had a warning they would have sortied and be sunk in deep water. They did not hit our repair facilities and fuel storage. All but 2 ships were raised and went off to war.
The salvage and repair of these ships was a little known heroic act. Look up a book, DESCENT INTO DARKNESS, about the salvage of those ships. The author was a hardhat diver and tells of diving inside the Arizona wlth some 200 of the crew floating around. There were men in those days!
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