Remember Pearl Harbor

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Premod70 posted this 07 December 2024

It's that time of year that commercial profits take place over our history once again. Seems to get worse as the years pass. God bless the greatest nation in the world.

Forrest Gump is my smarter brother.

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Tom Acheson posted this 08 December 2024

I also always remember that date and what was done to us.

But then I also remember June 4, 5 and 6 June 1942. We lost almost 3,000 service people on 7 Dec. And the “other guys” lost almost 3,000 in talented air crews and deck people in that June during the Battle of Midway. Many of those were involved in the 7 Dec. sneak attack. They never quite recovered from that experience…..the loss of four air carriers…but we did.

They split their forces before the battle and those forces went up to the Aleutians. A whole other story. My dad was an Army MP at Elmendorf air corps base during that time period.

Tom

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trapdoor4570 posted this 08 December 2024

I worked with a Pearl Harber survivor.  He never let anyone know.  One time he told me the story.  December 7th he was the next ensign on the list to do Sunday service in an office, no one else in the office and his job was to sit there till relived.  The office had to be maned 24 hours.  The name on the office door, Harbor Defense.  the only thing he was told to do was sit there.  It was Sunday so everyone else to man the office was given the day off, but it had to be maned so park your butt and what to be relived, nothing else.  So, all he could do was watch hell break loose.  To him December 7th was a day of shame.

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trapdoor4570 posted this 08 December 2024

Just shook a memory out of the cobwebs.  One day at church a couple of men kidded one of the members about not showing up in his pajamas, it was December 7th.  It was Mr. Rasmussen.  I asked my dad. when we got home and dad said that he had gotten a plane up wearing his pajamas & a .45 and shot done one of the japs.  There is a display in the Air Force museum of a P-36 with a pilot in pajamas and a .45 getting into the plane.  I never asked Mr. Rasmussen about it, that just wasn't done.  They say there were around 500 bullet holes in the plane.  They must have built those planes tough, and he did some good flying.

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RicinYakima posted this 08 December 2024

"To him December 7th was a day of shame."

For every person who goes against his orders and becomes a hero, there are 999 who did their duty. It is not the Ensign' fault that his superiors did not train or teach him what he was suppose to do, but theirs. 

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Idahocaster posted this 09 December 2024

My grandmother was 14 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She and her family lived in Oklahoma. Her mother had a friend who ran a portrait studio in town and also had a son in the navy at Pearl. When they heard about the attack on the radio they all went to have their portraits taken so that the friend could have something to do other than worry about her son.

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