Pounding from the interior of the ship's hull was heard for several days afterwards, but not much drilling was done for fear of explosion from accumulated gasses inside the ship. The drilling that was done resulted in the rescue of 32 men.
The attack took place on December 7, and all those unaccounted for were declared dead on December 20th.
One of them was Paul Anderson Nash, whose body had been identified in 1949, but reburied. It has recently been returned to the U.S..
J.C. England-- John Charles England.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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