73 years ago a sneak attack by forces of the Japanese Empire sank much of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. The Japanese Empire came to regret doing this.
USS California, built at Mare Island, commissioned in 1921, was one of the dreadnaughts parked in Battleship Row when the Japanese attacked. Her crew fought hard, two were posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, but she sank at her moorings. California was refloated and patched so that she could sail under her own power to Puget Sound, where she was extensively rebuilt. She returned to battle in June, 1944 and participated in the island-hopping campaign.
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