Navy Cmdr. Mark Manfredi welcomes a Pearl Harbor survivor and crewmember of the destroyer USS Ward (DD 139) aboard the USS Crommelin (FFG 37) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 5, 2005. On Dec. 7, 1941, USS Ward and her crew delivered the first shot of the war in the Pacific Ocean when she intercepted and sank a mysterious Japanese submarine at the entrance to Pearl Harbor one hour before the Japanese air attack on the island of Oahu.

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