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![]() USS West Virginia, a Colorado class battleship, took nine torpedo hits from
naval aviators of the Japanese Imperial Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. She was sunk, but not destroyed.
70 US Navy sailors were trapped in the underwater hull. The last one died on December 23, 1941.
West Virginia was refloated and refurbished. She returned to combat action on
October 19,1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where her guns poured a total of 1,864 shells non-stop into Japanese troops
and artillery near Tacloban in the Philippine Islands, silencing them for good.
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