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American planes mistaken for Japanese but the crew didn’t know that, according to Pond. “The cruisers came out at full tilt at dark. We knew they were our ships but it was still kind of scarey.”
The second attack never materialized. Recovery work began the next day. Thousands were wounded and 2.300 were killed on December 7 at Pearl Harbor. “We lost two of our crew on the beach that day...one was found and the other was declared missing and presumed dead,” Pond said.
Too old a vessel to take a more active role in the war the Chew was assigned to
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