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The Crew of the USS Ward’s number three gun—a four inch, 50 caliber low-angle weapon typical of old destroyers like the Ward—fired upon and sunk a Japanese mini sub off Oahu.An old vessel and its new captain and crew of reservists encountered the enemy off Oahu in the crucial minutes before the Pearl Harbor attack With the dawn of December 6, 1941—the 8,426th consecutive day of peace in America—the venerable USS Ward took in its lines and began slipping through the sedate waters of Pearl Harbor, bound …

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