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After Pearl Harbour ...

US Navy/National Archives.

Wrecked destroyers USS Downes and USS Cassin in their docks, with WW1-vingatage "super dreadnaught" battleship, USS Pennsylvania in the background, in dry dock at Pearl Harbour following the Japanese attack. "Downes" and "Cassin" were effectively destroyed by fire as a result of a "common hit" from a Japanese incendiary bomb. However, the critical damage was to their hulls, and recovery of their internal equipment and installations allowed them to be recommissioned later in the war. USS Pennsylvania continued in active service to the end of the war, finally going to the bottom as a firing target in 1948. Best regards, JR.

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7/18/2014

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