RIGHT NOW in 1941, an armour-piercing bomb dropped from a Japanese warplane strikes the battleship USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. It penetrates the vessel’s deck and hits the ship’s forward magazine, causing a massive explosion. The blast kills 1,177 and destroys the vessel pic.twitter.com/LgPvBKKd9D
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The post @MilHistNow: RIGHT NOW in 1941, an armour-piercing bomb dropped from a Japanese warplane strikes the battleship USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. It penetrates the vessel’s deck and hits the ship’s forward magazine, causing a massive explosion. The blast kills 1,177 and destroys the vessel pic.twitter.com/LgPvBKKd9D first appeared on October Surprise 2016 – octobersurprise2016.org.
