Pearl Harbor: 80th Anniversary
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Battle of Phoenix
An armor piercing bomb weighing 800 kilos or so, just less than a ton, crashed through four steel decks of the arizona. Something like 500 tons of explosives were instantly detonated. Witnesses say that the fireball went five 600 feet into the air, engulfing nearly everybody on the ship. The only reason donald stratton survived was his very elevated position high the rest of the hull. Donald and five comrades desperately sought for a way to escape the doomed ship. On neighbouring us S vessel petyoff's first class joseph leon george, 26 years old, spotted them and threw them in. All six sailors made it across alive. One would die later from his injuries
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