Pearl Harbor Salute (Vanity)

Self | 12-07-10 | Self

[FrankR]

I don't do many posts, so I hope I have this right. This is a cherished photo of my Dad, who was in Pearl Harbor in 1941 during the attack.

[cubreporter]

No...thank YOU for sharing such a wonderful photo of your dad at Pearl Harbor. Anyone there is a hero to me.

[bmwcyle]

Hand Salute.........................two

[BobP]

Great Picture Frank.

[Huebolt]

Folks of that generation would always talk about remembering exactly where they were and what they were doing at that time. It must have been a shock unlike anything we know. Thanks for the pic.

[FrankR]

Gosh, I just don't know what kind of car that is...never did know much about Packards. Again, another question I should have asked him when he was still around.

However, this picture and some others were lost back in the 70's and I just happened to have an Aunt (his sister) who had copies of some of them. She passed recently and my cousins sent me the pictures.

[FrankR]

Mr. Lucky, I thank you for giving me that lead on the car; I did a search and I think it is a '38 Packard, just like you said.

Here's the pic I found;



Looks just like it...

[FrankR]

No, he was employed by the Navy in the Civil Service as a Machinist. He had polio as a child and wasn't able to join the regular service due to his slight limp, so he went the civil service route.

However, he was on base and in the barracks on the morning of the attack, and he saw it all; before, during, and the aftermath. He never talked about that part a lot.

[jmacusa]

God bless your father. I thank him and all our veterans for my freedom.

[Charles Martel]

He never talked about that part a lot.

Understandable, I'd say. My late father-in-law was a navigator aboard a Navy patrol bomber- one of the big 4-engine flying boats, nearly twice the size of the more commonly seen Catalina. I knew he was in the Pacific later in the war (got there just in time for Guadalcanal), but he never said much until I started asking. Then, the stories... wow.

I actually typed up a summary and gave it to the WWII Museum in New Orleans, along with a few Japanese artifacts he'd brought home.

[PGalt]

No, he was employed by the Navy in the Civil Service as a Machinist. He had polio as a child and wasn't able to join the regular service due to his slight limp, so he went the civil service route.

Great post/pic, FrankR. Thanks to all who have served and all who have supported, all who are serving and all who are supporting, and all who will serve in the future and all who will support them.

[cracker45]

Thanks FrankR!! We need to remember those guys who endured the tragedy that was that war. Too many nowadays think they have the only solution to tyranny as appeasement, but your Dad’s generation took the fight directly to the enemy and prevailed against all odds. My hat goes off to him!

JC

[Mr. Lucky]

That is a sweet ride. Your father was a man of taste.