Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Questions on the attack of Pearl Harbor?
I'm writing an essay where you must pretend to be a person in history. They don't have to be famous and you can even make them up but it has to be set in history.
What I wanted to do was be a father on one of the ships that were being attacked. You know how below the ships deck it was made of steel and it was sealed? And there could be no oxygen to breathe in while the ships were sinking. People who were stuck below the deck wrote on the walls messages to their loved ones. One of my teachers told me that.
I'm going to be one of those people in my essay.
So could you tell me more about the people who were stuck below deck? Any stories you've heard of?
And any other facts that may support my essay?
Please and thanks. :)
By the way this essay is due in 2 days. I felt like I needed to add that.
3 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
There are many books by professional historians about Pearl Harbor; many of them quote from accounts of the attack by people who were there. There are other books that are memoirs written by people who were there. Go to your library and find some of these and read them. That will be a lot more useful than getting third-hand reports from random Yahoos on Yahoo.
- steve_geo1Lv 79 years ago
I cannot help you with your particular question.Pearl Harbor was so long ago. But there was a more recent similar disaster. In recent years, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank after a mishap in which one or more of her torpedoes exploded on board while the ship was submerged. The sailors sealed the doors to the various compartments as soon as it happened. But the ship filled up with water. As they died, Russian sailors used the remaining electric light left to write messages. You might use this event and their messages to re-create what might have happened in 1941.
Google <kursk> <messages> <sink> <Russia>
- 9 years ago
I know it was a Sunday morning and most of the ammunition was locked up. So they scattered to get the supplies they needed and it was about the worst time for them to be ready for an attack.
