Do you know what time it is? It's time for our artifact of the week. After the devastating attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, sailors from the Battleship USS Tennessee were dispatched to help fight fires aboard other ships. Bob Bishop found this single star while helping clean wreckage from the USS West Virginia and kept it. This star proved to be one of the few fragments left of the flag that flew above the damaged battleship. Years later, Mr. Bishop entrusted this star to the Battleship USS Tennessee Museum and it can be viewed in the Pearl Harbor gallery.
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