Posted on 12/07/2023 5:50:35 AM PST by paterfamilias
Let us remember the 2,403 Americans were killed in the surprise attack by the Japanese fleet on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.
Navy: 2,008 souls lost Army: 254 souls lost Marine Corps: 73 souls lost Civilians: 68 souls lost.
U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club Tribute to Pearl Harbor: Eternal Father, Strong to Save: The Navy Hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCiMdR1ox0
U.S. Military Academy Glee Club: Mansions of the Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jccNoxn1HoU
I remember my mother telling me she heard as everyone was leaving church that morning - it was such a shock.
These men of that generation...it brings to mind one of my favorite quotes, yet bittersweet and sad from Tales of The South Pacific by James Michener:
"They will live a long time, these men of the South Pacific. They had an American quality. They, like their victories, will be remembered as long as our generation lives. After that, like the men of the Confederacy, they will become strangers. Longer and longer shadows will obscure them, until their Guadalcanal sounds distant on the ear like Shiloh and Valley Forge."
Yet, here we are.
Only 23 years out from 9/11, and already it is sounding more distant on our ear.
You would think we had learned something from Pearl Harbor.
December 7, 1941. My mother’s 21st birthday. She never forgave the “Japs” for the attack.
Thank you for this post. I have been looking for an article on Pearl Harbor today on any of the MSM websites. Finally found one near the bottom of Fox News.
Hardly anyone thinks of this anymore and it’s such a pity. I never knew anyone that experienced PH but I had a 21 year old uncle that was killed on the USS Boise during the naval battles around Guadalcanal in 1942. He was a Gunners Mate 2nd class, I’m told. God bless them all.
Pearl Harbor Minute By Minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joh2BXPsrXs&list=PLsIk0qF0R1j6ydMvoUBKj_WrnP4PtBlfk
On the night of 11–12 October 1942, during the Battle of Cape Esperance, the task force of which Boise was part encountered a force of Japanese cruisers and destroyers to the west of Guadalcanal. In the engagement Boise was hit a number of times, twice by fire from a Japanese heavy cruiser from about 7,500 yards (6,900 m) range. One hit exploded upon impact on her armor causing little damage. The other penetrated under the waterline and exploded in the 6 in (152 mm) magazine located between number I and II turrets causing a powder fire and flooding, putting turrets I, II, and III out of action and causing a number of casualties[11] including 107 killed.[12]
About 24 November 1941, Marblehead, with TF 5, departed Manila Bay She anchored at Tarakan, Borneo, 29 November and waited for further instructions. On 8 December (7 December in the United States) she received the message -"JAPAN STARTED HOSTILITIES; GOVERN YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY".
Thanks.
**** died 12 Oct 1942 near Savo Island, Solomon Island group. He was assigned as a gunners mate to the Light Cruiser USS “Boise”. **** and 107 and his shipmates paid the ultimate price for freedom. He was buried at sea.
Less killed at Pearl Harbor than on 9-11. Yet the cube in Mecca is still standing. It should have been radioactive rubble for the next thousand years.
I’ve been to pearl Harbor in 1969. USAF.
My wife’s grandfather heard of it on the car radio driving between Ft Worth and OKC that afternoon.
Dad did not hear about it till...well, lets say he was too busy doing State Government work on Hwy 14 in New Mexico. He was later released from his duties to fight in Europe.
Lots of war movies on today. One of my favorites is TASK FORCE with Gary Cooper, about the beginning of the aircraft carriers.
Filmed in Black and White it reverts to color the last thirty minutes when you see the actual horrors of the Kamakazi attack on the USS Franklin.
And now everybody’s driving Toyotas and Hondas.
And now China is our enemy.
Good morning, FRiends, I’m here at Pearl Harbor and will be reporting live from the national observance later this morning. Unfortunately my friend Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona, aged 102, was unable to make the trip as he hoped, but more than two dozen of his family and friends are here and will be at the solemn and somber ceremonies this a.m.
Thank you!
Have you seen this video about the USS Marblehead from The History Guy?
The Extraordinary Voyage of the USS Marblehead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb9h5bU8Dwk
My Grandfather was in Panama.
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