Red Sun at War by Nick Shepley

Author:Nick Shepley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Japan, Pearl, Harbour, USA, Nagumo, surprise, attack, World, War, Two, USS, Arizona, West Virginia, California, Utah
ISBN: 9781781660416
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Radioman Thomas Reeves manually carried ammunition to the anti aircraft guns when the ammunition hoists that would have lifted the shells jammed. He died of smoke inhalation as the ship burned by was also honoured with a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honour. His citation said:

“For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. After the mechanized ammunition hoists were put out of action in the U.S.S. California, Reeves, on his own initiative, in a burning passageway, assisted in the maintenance of an ammunition supply by hand to the antiaircraft guns until he was overcome by smoke and fire, which resulted in his death.”

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