When the battleship U.S.S. California was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, several Marine Corps detachment M1903 rifles still in her hull were salvaged after the attack, as revealed thanks to the efforts of the Archival Research Group.
The last survivor of Nishimura’s force, the destroyer Shigure, was sunk by a submarine in early 1945. All of the major American ships survived the war.
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