USS Ward (DD-139) gun crew 4"/50 Cal Gun No. 3 that fired the first shots at Pearl Harbor
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. This gun is a 4/50 type, mounted atop the ship's midships deckhouse, starboard side. 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.
Credit: USN via NH-97446 Date: 1942
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