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Pearl Harbor Scavenger Hunt

                                                                                

 

  1. What time was the first target hit?  7:53 AM
    http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl.htm

 

  1. Who said, "A day which will live in infamy"?  President Franklin D. Roosevelt
    http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/national/speeches/spch2.html

 

  1. Which ships were placed within 12 miles from the island?  Ward, Vega, Antares, Keosanqua, Navajo
    http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-2.htm

 

  1. What year was the legislation passed authorizing the Navy to erect a memorial of the USS Arizona? 1958 http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/USS_Arizona/history/history.html

 

  1. How many sailors died on the USS Arizona? 1,117 http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/12/07/pearl.harbor.ap/

 

  1. List the ships that were present at the time of the attack? http://www.hawaii.navy.mil/Dec7/\

 

  1. What is the name of the ship where sailors can place their ashes? Arizona http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Museums/PearlHarbor/UssArizona/Inside/

 

  1. What sailors had navy ships named after them to commerate their actions? Capt. Meryn S. Bennion, Capt. Cassin Young, Ensign Francis C. Flaherty, Ensign Frederick C. Davis, Ensign Herbert C. Jones, Chief Botwain Edwin J. Hill, RADM Issac C. Kidd, Ship’s Cook 3rd C Dorie Miller, Lt. Jackson C. Pharris, Chief Radioman Thomas J. Reeves, LCDR Donald K. Ross,  Machinist’s Mate 1st C Robert R. Scott, Chief Watertender Peter Tomich, Capt. Franklin Van Valkenburgh, Lt. John W. Finn, Capt. Samuel G. Fuqua, and Seaman First Class James R. Ward.    http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-8.htm

 

  1. The same day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor they also attacked who? Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippine Islands, Wake Island, Midway Island http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/national/speeches/spch2.html

 

  1. Where were the carriers on December 7, 1941? Enterprise TF-8, consisting of Enterprise, the heavy cruisers Northampton (CA-26), Chester (CA-27), and Salt Lake City (CA-24) on the dawn of 12/7/41 TF-8 was 215 miles west of Oahu.

Lexington: TF-12, on the dawn of 12/7/41 Lexington, heavy cruisers Chicago (CA-29), Portland (CA-33), and Astoria (CA-34), and five destroyers about 500 miles southeast of     Midway.

Saratoga: on 12/7/41 Saratoga, having recently completed an overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, reached NAS San Diego [North Island]

Yorktown (CV-5), Ranger (CV-4) and Wasp (CV-7), along with the aircraft escort vessel Long Island (AVG-1), were in the Atlantic Fleet; Hornet (CV-8), commissioned in late October 1941, had yet to carry out her shakedown. Yorktown would be the first Atlantic Fleet carrier to be transferred to the Pacific, sailing on 16 December 1941. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-9.htm

 

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