<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:identifier>https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/052260</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/052260.jpg</dc:identifier><dc:title>U.S.S. West Virginia Sailors Hoist Their Glasses at Monkey Bar, Pearl Harbor, HI</dc:title><dc:date>1941/12/06</dc:date><dc:subject>World War II.</dc:subject><dc:subject>Ships.</dc:subject><dc:description>L to R: Jack Miller, Frank Kosa, Clifford Olds.Olds and 2 other crew members , Ronald Endicott and Louis Costin were trapped in a sealed compartment in the West Virginia's bow after it sank on December 7th.  Any rescue attempt meant certain death. The 3 stayed alive until December 24th according to a marked calendar found with their bodies which were recovered after the ship was raised from the harbor bottom in May, 1942.</dc:description><dc:source>West Virginia History OnView</dc:source><dc:source>USS West Virginia </dc:source></oai_dc:dc>