European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The re making of a Fleet by Hugh a. Mulligan a special correspondent in the final analysis. Rosie the Riveter beat Tokyo Rose fifty years after the japanese inflicted America s worst naval defeat a key Victory achieved by a Blue Collar army of women and men firing rivet guns is virtually forgotten. Often working double shifts they battled in All kinds of weather to raise the decimated . Pacific Fleet Jup from scrap and hurry it Back into action. Of the 94 . Warships in Pearl Harbor on that infamous sunday morning 18 were sunk or severely damaged. Yet Only the Arizona the Utah and the Oklahoma were unable to get Back into the War. The Arizona and the Utah rest where they went Down and serve As memorials for the Crew members entombed in their wreckage. The Oklahoma was moved and sunk off Oahu to Clear its berth on battleship Row it eventually was re floated and sold for scrap but Sank in a storm while under Tow to the Breakers Yard. The California was raised repaired and returned to the Fleet less than a year later As a virtually new ship it won seven Battle stars training its big guns on japanese strongholds As  forces Island hopped their Way a toward Tokyo tha West Virginia sunk at its mooring was raised and modernized in time to take part in the action at Leyte Gulf. It was the first Pearl Harbor survivor to Anchor in Tokyo Bay. The Tennessee which was double parked beside it and badly damaged was ready for action less than three weeks after the Surprise attack. The Maryland also underwent speedy repairs and saw action in the first month of the War. The battleship Pennsylvania and the destroyers Cassin and Downes sitting ducks Lor the torpedo bombers in dry Dock no. 1. Sailed Back into action with new hulls and achieved excellent War records. The cruisers Honolulu Helena and Raleigh All rejoined the War. The mine layer Oglala the old fall River liner that shipyard workers jokingly said Quot Sank from fright during the attack was salvaged and refitted for further duty in the South Pacific the Nevada then the oldest battleship in the Pacific Fleet was the Only one to get under Way during the japanese attack it attracted swarms of Zero fighters and Val dive bombers and severely damaged nosed into the mud off Hospital Point to avoid blocking the ship Channel out to sea. Later pulled off by Salvage tugs it was rebuilt and restored to action it took part in the Aleutian Campaign and Normandy invasion then witnessed the Dawn of the atomic age As a target ship during the tests on Bikini atoll the battleship Utah sometimes referred to As the forgotten memorial lies entombed at Pearl Harbor. In egyptian mythology the Phoenix is a fabled Bird consumed by fire that rises from the ashes. The Cruiser Phoenix Rose from the rubble of Pearl Harbor to win nine Battle stars by War s end later it was sold to the Argentine Navy and its Luck ran out. As the Gen. Belgrano it was sunk by the British in the Falkland islands War. Two Harbor tugs that survived the japanese attack still Are at work the Wapello nudges ships in and out of the Panama canal. The hoga is in the employ of the City of Oakland Calif. The coast guard Cutter Taney which i>0 years ago was based Honolulu Harbor is now at the Baltimore Harbor museum Only two of the 32 surface ships in adm Oruku Yamamoto a task Torce were afloat when the surrender was signed aboard the  Missouri All six japanese carriers that delivered the 360 attack planes to within Range of Hawaii were sunk by the end of the War approximate positions of . Ships hit in attack Tangier seaplane tender bombed Utah target ship torpedoed and sunk Curtis Light Cruiser torpedoed Raleigh Light Cruiser torpedoed Detroit Light Cruiser escaped damage Solace Hospital ship escaped damage Tennessee battleship bombed a Phoenix Light Cruiser escaped damage Waal Virginia battleship bombed and torpedoed o Nevada battleship torpedoed bombed and beached Arizona battleship torpedoed and sunk in Vastal repair ship bombed and sunk i them were approximately 96 ships in Peart Harbor at the time of the attack. The ones shown were either hit or in the imm Betot amp Vicinity of the worst fighting. A Maryland battleship bombed _ o Oklahoma battleship torpedoed Aid sunk Navaho fuel Tanker escaped damage source peat Harbor. H p. Willmott gallery books dec. 7. 1941 the Day the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Gordon w. Prange Warner books Pearl Harbor. A j. Barker bal anime books a read Brown saturday december 7,1991 tha Stara and strip a 7