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Title Descent into darkness [electronic resource eBook] : Pearl Harbor, 1941: a Navy diver's memoir / Edward C. Raymer.


Contents San Diego, California -- USS Nevada -- USS Utah -- USS Arizona -- USS California -- USS West Virginia -- USS Oklahoma -- South Pacific theater of war -- Return to the Oklahoma.
Summary On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers headed by Edward C. Raymer are hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. The divers have been given a Herculean task: rescue the sailors and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the Pacific fleet.Now for the first time, the chief diver of the Pearl Harbor salvage operations, Cmdr. Edward C. Raymer, USN (Ret.), tells the whole story of the desperate attempts to save crewmembers caught i.
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Other edition Print version: 9781591147244.
Subject Raymer, Edward C.
United States. Navy -- Biography.
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Personal narratives, American.
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
Divers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9781612511023
STANDARD # B20A6D9B-786E-40F5-A68F-3DC84C778853 OverDrive