UNDER FIRE
BRAVE WORK BY CIVILIAN MECHANICS RESCUE OF TRAPPED SEAMEN AT PEARL HARBOUR. HOLES CUT IN STEEL SIDES OF BATTLESHIP. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) HONOLULU, March 25. The Navy Department has revealed that 32 sailors, trapped in the hull of the capsized battleship Oklahoma, at Pearl Harbour on December 7 last, were saved by civilian workmen cutting through the steel sides of the ship while under fire. The workmen dug through the hull with pneumatic drills all day on December 7 and all night and all the next day, releasing groups of trapped sailors from pitchblack compartments which were slowly filling with water. The sailors signalled to their rescuers by tapping inside the hull. Many times the rescuers had to halt their work in order to dodge flying splinters from bursting shells. The Navy gave citations to twenty workers and one officer involved in the rescue.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1942, Page 3
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151UNDER FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1942, Page 3
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