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Description Lot-9430-4: Office of War Information Photograph, 9-11 May 1942. They Fired First Shot For U.S. Forces in Pacific War and Sank Japanese Submarine. This gun crew aboard USS Ward (DD 139) had the distinction of firing the first shot in their country’s reply to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. With the four-inch gun with which they are shown here, they sank a Japanese midget submarine in the first hours of fighting and played a major part in the heroic defenses of the islands by U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine forces who drove the Japanese away before their objective had been achieved. Note, Ward was later sunk by a Japanese kamikaze off Ormoc Bay, Leyte, on December 7, 1944, three years following her action off Pearl Harbor. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). Poor quality image.
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