The aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack

The men of the cruiser Astoria, at sea when Pearl Harbor was hit, had come home on December 13 to behold the Pacific battle line laid to waste and the docks of Ford Island lined with caskets. Ruined ships still burned, wreathed in a flotsam of shattered wood and human remains.

(from Neptune's Inferno, by James D. Hornfischer)


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