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Pearl Harbor Attack, USS Detroit (CL-8)(158 total words in this text)(4629 Reads)  Serial 1471 December 10, 1941. From: The Commanding Officer. To: Commander-in-Chief, U.S. PACIFIC FLEET. Subject: URDIS 102102 December 1941. Set Condition Zed throughout ship. Manned and fired all A.A. Guns, both 3" and .50 calibre machine guns. Round fired: 422 3"; 10,000 .50 calibre. Two planes were brought down by joint fire of this vessel and Curtiss. Two men received superficial wounds. No damage to ship, Motor boat sunk by explosion alongside Nevada. No case of distinguished conduct. One aerial torpedo passed about ten yards astern of Detroit at Berth F-13. Believe this torpedo buried in mud or coral between Berths F-12 and F-13. [signed] L.J. WILTSE. Copies to: Combatfor Comdesbatfor Comcrubatfor |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
