Ward, who fired Pearl Harbor’s first shot, located after 73 years
New video in from the Philippines of Paul Allen’s RV Petrel exploring and documenting the remains of the Wickes-class destroyer, USS Ward (DD-139/APD-16).
USS Ward fired the first American shot in World War II on December 7, 1941, and of course is a past Warship Wednesday alumnus.
In a twist of fate, she was lost December 7, 1944, in Ormoc Bay and is now found and announced to the world again on that, now hallowed, date.
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