The War Begins
Moored at Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941, the crew of the Talbot manned her guns and began preparations for getting underway within minutes of the start of the Japanese attack. By 0900 she was en route out of the harbor having already splashed her first enemy aircraft. After the attack, she searched for enemy submarines and, on the 14th, sortied with Task Force 14 (TF 14) on the first of a series of carrier force screening assignments.
Read more about this topic: USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390)
Famous quotes containing the words war and/or begins:
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)
“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
—Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)