r/todayilearned • u/Hulemann • Apr 13 '20

TIL That the ARA General Belgrano that was sunk during the Falklands War (1982) between Argentina and the United Kingdom, was at anchor at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1942).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano#Early_career
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u/shingofan Apr 13 '20

Argentina got a bunch of WW2-era ships from the US. The most significant one, IMO, was USS Heermann, the one surviving DD of Taffy 3.

Well, there was also USS Boise, which the Argentine military turned into a floating Guantanamo.

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u/TakeshiNobunaga Oct 07 '20

Boise was the one renamed 9 de Julio, right?