Pearl Harbor sunken warships raised in 1943...
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 23, 1943
- Pearl Harbor sunken warships
- U.S. Naval salvage operation
- Righting the USS Oklahoma
The bottom of the front page has a two column heading: "'Dead' Ships rise at Pearl Harbor; Miracle in Salvage Cuts Loss to 3" (see images)
Complete 1st section with all 46 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally nice.
In May 1943, Pearl Harbor reached a major milestone in naval salvage operations with the righting of the USS Oklahoma (BB-37), a massive engineering feat that utilized 21 giant shore-based winches and steel cables anchored to Ford Island to slowly pull the 29,000-ton capsized battleship 180 degrees back onto an even keel. This critical operation allowed recovery crews to patch her hull, float the ship, and honorably retrieve the remains of over 400 trapped sailors, while concurrent deep-water dives into the unsalvageable USS Arizona reclaimed her heavy 14-inch main battery guns to be re-mounted on active warships—symbolizing the resilience of the U.S. Pacific Fleet as it turned the tide from catastrophe to sustained offensive war effort.