![]() ![]() Life and Fight go on.Īfter that we were honored to have dad home again. Raleigh made it and survived for the duration. ![]() She was kept afloat by jettisoning everything not permanently attached barges supported, pumps counter-flooded and breaches were shored. Retrospective- Courageous acts by officers and men saved most souls on board. All survived there but below decks, not a pretty site. Then, impact Two… this time as an armor piercing bomb crashes through bulkheads and explodes a short distance beyond her hull. Gaping holes and torn seams shored for now. USS Raleigh (CL-7) became an early casualty at Pearl Harbor that Day. A deafening Roar as the torpedo detonates below. Klaxons Sounded, Squawk Box Screamed, Air Raid Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.Ī crash of steel upon steel, ripped, screaming from forces not meant to be Main deck, deck plates, deck after deck and into the mud below. ![]() is shaving and about to step ashore but on this day that would not happen. Church bells, laughter a day of peace and rest. 7 December 1941, America enters WWII “A day which will live in Infamy!”Ī warm Sunday morning about 7:45 a.m. This is a re-post from earlier this year but it is most relevant now. ![]()
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