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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: U.S. WW2 staff car info wanted
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Date: 14 Aug 90 03:36:02 GMT
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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

> From: mailrus!sharkey!amara!mcdaniel@uunet.UU.NET (Tim McDaniel)
> 
> A friend in England recently picked up a car purported to be a World
> War Two U. S. Army staff car.  However, he knows little about the
> history of the car, and asked me to help find out more.
> 
> USA-W 13807.  A plate on the dashboard says
> 	Capt. Frank Hagler
> 	Marine Detachment
> 	USS Nevada
> * Information on USS Nevada's WW2 service would be nice.

It started at Pearl Harbor 7/12/41.

Nevada got up steam during the attack and proceded to head for
open sea.  It sustained some damage during the attack, and the
Captain elected to ground Nevada near Ford (?) Island rather
than take a chance of being sunk near the entrance to Pearl 
Harbor and possibly block it for months.

Things generally went uphill from there, I assume.

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