Media Category: Hawaii History
Lots of history in Hawaii, plenty of stories
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Zo305.This is the USS Houston CA-30 being greeted in Pearl Harbor on the 14th July 1939. Of course, we know that the USS Houston sunk in the Battle of Sunda Stait on the 1st of March 1942. This is an image of the WWII exhibits in the Oahu Court, Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, part of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. Some of these sailors in this image may have paid the ultimate price for their service. Here is a short Wikipedia paragraph about the ship:
The Skipper Captain Albert Rooks was killed by a bursting shell at 00:30, and as the ship came to a stop, Japanese destroyers moved in, machine-gunning the decks. A few minutes later, Houston rolled over and sank. Of the 1,061 aboard, 368 survived, including 24 of the 74-man Marine Detachment, only to be captured by the Japanese and interned in prison camps. Of 368 Navy and Marine Corps personnel taken prisoner, 77 (21%) died in captivity.
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Zo304.This is the USS Houston CA-30 being greeted in Pearl Harbor on the 14th July 1939. Of course, we know that the USS Houston sunk in the Battle of Sunda Stait on the 1st of March 1942. This is an image of the WWII exhibits in the Oahu Court, Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, part of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. Some of these sailors in this image may have paid the ultimate price for their service. Here is a short Wikipedia paragraph about the ship:
The Skipper Captain Albert Rooks was killed by a bursting shell at 00:30, and as the ship came to a stop, Japanese destroyers moved in, machine-gunning the decks. A few minutes later, Houston rolled over and sank. Of the 1,061 aboard, 368 survived, including 24 of the 74-man Marine Detachment, only to be captured by the Japanese and interned in prison camps. Of 368 Navy and Marine Corps personnel taken prisoner, 77 (21%) died in captivity.
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Zo303.This is the USS Houston CA-30 being greeted in Pearl Harbor on the 14th July 1939. Of course, we know that the USS Houston sunk in the Battle of Sunda Stait on the 1st of March 1942. This is an image of the WWII exhibits in the Oahu Court, Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, part of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. Some of these sailors in this image may have paid the ultimate price for their service. Here is a short Wikipedia paragraph about the ship:
The Skipper Captain Albert Rooks was killed by a bursting shell at 00:30, and as the ship came to a stop, Japanese destroyers moved in, machine-gunning the decks. A few minutes later, Houston rolled over and sank. Of the 1,061 aboard, 368 survived, including 24 of the 74-man Marine Detachment, only to be captured by the Japanese and interned in prison camps. Of 368 Navy and Marine Corps personnel taken prisoner, 77 (21%) died in captivity.
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Zo302. This is the Navy Boat Landing, which is located next to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Theatre at the Oahu Court in the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, part of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. These large Navy boats, manned by experienced sailors, provide free transportation to the USS Arizona Memorial.
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