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Show Give Him Liberty, Not . . . One of the many stories circulated circulat-ed following the attack on Pearl Harbor concerns a Marine corps private trapped inside the hull of a partly submerged vessel. Several days after the attack, workmen salvaging sal-vaging the ship were startled to hear a tapping inside the hull. Working frantically with torches, they cut a hole through the plate. A Leatherneck stepped out of the hole, looked at the sweating workmen work-men and said: "When does the next liberty boat go ashore 1 " |