December 07, 2025
84 Years
U.S.S. Nevada (BB36) burns after having beached herself on Ford Island. The only ship to get underway during the Pearl Harbor attack, she made break for the ocean under the command of her critically wounded Officer of the Deck, (Ensign Joseph Taussig) but the battleship was caught in the Pearl Harbor channel by the second wave of torpedo bombers and hit multiple times. Taussig beached the vessel to keep from blocking the channel (and thereby granting the Japanese total victory) before he was drug from the bridge to receive life-saving medical attention which resulted in his leg being amputated.
Taussig Returned to duty 3 days later. He retired from the navy in 1954.
U.S.S. Nevada was repaired, and despite being quite old went on to a rather...active....career for the next few years.
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