Photo #: NH 97446
USS Ward (DD-139)
"A Shot for Posterity -- The USS Ward's number three
gun and its crew-cited for firing the first shot the day of Japan's
raid on Hawaii. Operating as part of the inshore patrol early
in the morning of December 7, 1941, this destroyer group spotted
a submarine outside Pearl Harbor, opened fire and sank her. Crew
members are R.H. Knapp - BM2c - Gun Captain, C.W. Fenton - Sea1c
- Pointer, R.B. Nolde - Sea1c - Trainer, A.A. De Demagall - Sea1c
- No. 1 Loader, D.W. Gruening - Sea1c - No. 2 Loader, J.A. Paick
- Sea1c - No. 3 Loader, H.P. Flanagan - Sea1c - No. 4 Loader,
E.J. Bakret - GM3c - Gunners Mate, K.C.J. Lasch - Cox - Sightsetter."
(quoted from the original 1942-vintage caption)
This gun is a 4"/50 type, mounted atop the ship's midships
deckhouse, starboard side.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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