WORKERS PRAISED
RECONSTRUCTION AT PEARL HARBOUR
(Rec. noon.) WASHINGTON,' Dec. 27. Reviewing the reconstruction work at Pearl Harbour since the Japanese attack, the Navy Department states that Pearl Harbour was not really the Gibraltar of the Pacific which some believed. When the Pacific Fleet began using it as an operating base in 1940 many deficiencies were apparent. Immediate steps were taken to remedy them. The reconstruction was approaching its completion on December 7, last year. Workers were busy at repair tasks, literally while the bombs were falling. A quick survey showed that only j minor damage was caused to the navy yard. It can be said now that if the Japanese had destroyed the navy yard there might have been a different story in the Pacific. The devotion of the workers cannot be too highly praised. Men worked during the first few days virtually on a 24-hour shift, eating and sleeping where they could.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 3
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