World War II Chronicle: May 26, 1942
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On the front page we see the American flag flying on the mast of the USS Arizona. Salvage crews have spent the last five months stripping the battleship of her serviceable 14″/45 caliber guns for coastal defense. Two sites on Oahu are planned for Arizona’s guns: Battery Pennsylvania, 300 feet above what is now Marine Corps Base Hawaii (formerly Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay), and Point Arizona which is just northwest of the now-closed Naval Air Station Barbers Point. Crews later return for another set of guns, which are repaired and installed aboard USS Nevada.
Speaking of USS Nevada, she has already been refloated and patched up at Pearl Harbor, and on May 1 reached Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for major repairs. The World War I-era battleship will fight in Alaska, the Normandy Invasion, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa… George Fielding Eliot column on page 11… Sports section begins on page 15… PGA golfer and Army corporal Jim Turnesa is pictured on page 17. Turnesa is competing in the 1942 PGA Championship at Atlantic City. This will be the last major event of the war.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 26 May 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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