USS Ward
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USS Ward was laid down as a 1,247-long-ton Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later converted to a high speed transport in World War II. She was responsible for the f
Ward in dazzle camouflage in 1918 (as DD-139)
A Ko-hyoteki-class two-man submarine
Ward, after being hit by a kamikaze on 7 December 1944. She was sunk by U.S. Navy fire later the same day
Ward's 4-inch gun at the Minnesota State Capitol
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Empire of Japan on the US Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the US was
USS Ward
…American-caused casualties in the Pacific in World War II when she engaged and sank a Japanese midget submarine before Japanese aircraft arrived in the attack on Pearl Harbor, killing both crewmen on board. Ward was named in honor of Commander James Harmon Ward, USN, (1806–1861), the first U.S. Navy officer to be killed in…
Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941, a month before the attack, with Ford Island visible (in the center)
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor
The route followed by the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor and back