Memorial Ceremonies for Pearl Harbor and USS Wahoo
Dec 07, 2007
On Friday, December 7th 2007 at 11:00 am there will be emotional tribute to the shipmates of USS Wahoo(SS 238) from WWII as well as the "date that will live in infamy", the attack on Pearl Harbor.
USS WAHOO (SS 238)
During World War II, USS Wahoo and her crew conducted some of the most daring and dangerous missions of the war, sinking enemy targets close to the heavily guarded Japanese mainland. Credited with sinking 19 enemy ships, Wahoo headed out on its most dangerous and ultimately final mission in the fall of 1943. On October 11th, all hands were lost when Wahoo came under Japanese attack by air and sea, sending the submarine and her crew of 80 to the bottom of the Sea of Japan.
For over six decades, the location of the lost submarine remained a mystery. But on October 31, 2004 the U.S. Navy announced the submarine had been found off the northern tip of Japan, 213 feet beneath the Sea of Japan. Closure finally came to surviving family members nearly sixty- one years to the date of Wahoo's sinking. The wreckage will not be salvaged or disturbed. In keeping with Navy tradition, the ocean is the final resting place for shipmates lost at sea.
On Friday, December 7th, submarine veterans, led by retired Vice Admiral Al Baciocco, will pay tribute to the lost crew. A bench will be installed at the Cold War Submarine Memorial dedicated to the shipmates of USS Wahoo. Many of the former submariners scheduled to be on hand, including Baciocco, served aboard the Cold War era submarine USS Wahoo (SS565) named in honor of its historic predecessor.
REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR
On Friday December 7th at 11:00 am Patriots Point will host a second event that pays tribute to one of the most important dates in American history. December 7th, 1941, the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor by forces of the Japanese Imperial Navy.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10624 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina will hold a Pearl Harbor Memorial Ceremony on board the historic WWII aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. This moving ceremony includes the casting of wreaths into Charleston Harbor and the time honored ringing of the ship's bell in memory of the twenty five South Carolinians who died at Pearl Harbor. Special recognition is paid to aging WWII veterans attending the event, their numbers rapidly declining.
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The USS Yorktown is nearly 900 feet in length, weighing in at more than 27,000 tons.
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