7th December Pearl harbour ..

[timetraveller]

1941 -



Rest In Peace ..

[bd popeye]

Air Raid Pearl Harbor! This is not a drill!



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USS Phoenix (CL-46) steams down the channel off Ford Island's "Battleship Row", past the sunken and burning USS West Virginia (BB-48), at left, and USS Arizona (BB-39), at right, 7 December 1941.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph

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View looking up "Battleship Row" on 7 December 1941, after the Japanese attack.
USS Arizona (BB-39) is in the center, burning furiously. To the left of her are USS Tennessee (BB-43) and the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.



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USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, 7 December 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb.
At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.


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Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford Island, soon after USS Arizona was hit by bombs and her forward magazines exploded. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft.
Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Nevada; USS Arizona (burning intensely) with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard; and USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma capsized alongside.
Smoke from bomb hits on Vestal and West Virginia is also visible.
Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph has been reproduced under Navy Ministry authorization.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.


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Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, 7 December 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb.
At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.


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Sailors stand amid wrecked planes at the Ford Island seaplane base, watching as USS Shaw (DD-373) explodes in the center background, 7 December 1941.
USS Nevada (BB-36) is also visible in the middle background, with her bow headed toward the left.
Planes present include PBY, OS2U and SOC types. Wrecked wing in the foreground is from a PBY.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.


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USS West Virginia (BB-48) afire forward, immediately after the Japanese air attack.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) is on the sunken battleship's opposite side.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center


From the NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER....
The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship (http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/usnshtp/bb/bb.htm) force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.
Eighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.
By late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well.
The U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.
These great Japanese successes, achieved without prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged the previously divided American people into a level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea (http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/coralsea/coralsea.htm) in early May, Japan's far-reaching offensives proceeded untroubled by fruitful opposition. American and Allied morale suffered accordingly. Under normal political circumstances, an accomodation might have been considered.
However, the memory of the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor fueled a determination to fight on. Once the Battle of Midway (http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm) in early June 1942 had eliminated much of Japan's striking power, that same memory stoked a relentless war to reverse her conquests and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace.

[gaijinsamurai]

Rest in Peace to the fallen. You are not forgotten.

[Buckeye67]

http://www.youtube.com/v/Nt13c3olXkU

Pearl Harbor Survivor Stories:

Al Rodriguez:
http://www.youtube.com/v/pmRUOsD3Fus

Herb Weatherwax:
http://www.youtube.com/v/lcA8ZzkZ10c

Ansil Saunders:
http://www.youtube.com/v/n7uV360Kpb0

**** Rodby (Civilian Survivor):
http://www.youtube.com/v/6m9VYnAeA7Q

[California Joe]

When I worked for the Navy I always did posters to mark important historical dates. I found this one the other day...

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[Dispatcher]

When I worked for the Navy I always did posters to mark important historical dates. I found this one the other day...

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Image not working CJ.

[California Joe]

There, I fixed it. Stupidass connection...

[DeltaWhisky58]

Superb CJ - but you know I hang out here. ;-)

[D-gin]

That was the only event in which my grand father was involved in during WWII that he would not talk about.


Rest in Peace. We shall remember.

[khalifah]

Both my Grandpa's enlisted,( One in the Marines, other in the Army) within a week of December 7th.

They both saw combat, although my Marine grandpa never talked about it. My army grandpa saw combat in France, (Gave me a Hitler Youth Knife before he died!)

IN any case I am proud of what they did, even though this terrible event happened
R.I.P.

[Lifeinasmallbox]

I was able to visit PH just a few weeks back. Pretty emotional place...the tour guides didnt help any either. Kinda creepy about the whole situation...the barracks I currently live in still have the bullet holes in em...None the less RIP.

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

When I worked for the Navy I always did posters to mark important historical dates. I found this one the other day...

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff212/rghayes40/Pearl-Harbor.jpg

That guy looks like Lee Marvin (absolute legend)