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On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 18:51:59 -0500, "dadiOH" wrote:

Wrong. Didn't bother to read my link, did you? Second chance...
http://www.pearlharbor.org/ships-and-aircraft.asp


USS Nevada, near the Arizona got under way, sailing for open seas.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/remembering-the-uss-nevada-s-daring-run-the-sea-during-attack-pearl-harbor

"The USS Nevada was “defended by teenagers” when it was strafed,
bombed and torpedoed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on
Dec. 7, 1941. But the steel in the souls of those young men helped
them pull off one of the most storied maneuvers in maritime military
history.

The story of the Nevada’s improbable run for the sea 75 years ago on
Wednesday – it was the only U.S. battleship that managed to get
underway during the attack — is not only about the valor of her crew,
however.

The state’s “Battle Born” namesake was herself a warrior for the ages:
The World War I-vintage battleship not only survived the attack on
Pearl Harbor, but went on to fire her guns during the D-Day invasion
in France, in South Pacific battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa and
finally survive two nuclear bomb blasts off Bikini island before being
mercifully dispatched to Davy Jones’ locker."