Pearl Harbor Day

ABOUT PEARL HARBOR

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the underwater tomb for 1,177 Sailors and Marines


The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the Congress for a Declaration of War in his famous "Day of Infamy" speech. This is a link to that speech and a photo of the Congress in session that day.













The Pearl Harbor survivors have an organization that will soon cease to exist. There can be no new memberships. The remaining members are in their 80's and 90's. This year, 2018, marks the 76th anniversary of the attack. The members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, as they are known, used to travel to Hawaii every five years to commemorate the event. After the 2006 meeting they pretty much agreed that they would not plan on a meeting in 2011.



We respect, honor, and admire these survivors on the anniversary of the most horrific day in each of their lives.







There are two events in American History that shaped what Tom Brokaw has dubbed "the Greatest Generation": The Great Depression and World War Two.









I have to add my Friend Travis's posting about Pearl Harbor as well. 



Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 - The only color film of the attack

Underneath the U.S.S Arizona

America Declares War on Japan - President Roosevelt Speech

Pearl Harbor: The Road to Infamy

 

 

 

Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy, and After

 

Pearl Harbor

ABOUT PEARL HARBOR

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the underwater tomb for 1,177 Sailors and Marines
The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the Congress for a Declaration of War in his famous "Day of Infamy" speech. This is a link to that speech and a photo of the Congress in session that day.

The Pearl Harbor survivors have an organization that will soon cease to exist. There can be no new memberships. The remaining members are in their 80's and 90's. This year, 2008, marks the 67th anniversary of the attack. The members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, as they are known, used to travel to Hawaii every five years to commemorate the event. After the 2006 meeting they pretty much agreed that they would not plan on a meeting in 2011.
We respect, honor, and admire these survivors on the anniversary of the most horrific day in each of their lives.

There are two events in American History that shaped what Tom Brokaw has dubbed "the Greatest Generation": The Great Depression and World War Two.

I have to add my Friend Travis's posting about Pearl Harbor as well.

Pearl Harbor

ABOUT PEARL HARBOR

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the underwater tomb for 1,177 Sailors and Marines
The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the Congress for a Declaration of War in his famous "Day of Infamy" speech. This is a link to that speech and a photo of the Congress in session that day.

The Pearl Harbor survivors have an organization that will soon cease to exist. There can be no new memberships. The remaining members are in their 80's and 90's. This year, 2008, marks the 67th anniversary of the attack. The members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, as they are known, used to travel to Hawaii every five years to commemorate the event. After the 2006 meeting they pretty much agreed that they would not plan on a meeting in 2011.
We respect, honor, and admire these survivors on the anniversary of the most horrific day in each of their lives.

There are two events in American History that shaped what Tom Brokaw has dubbed "the Greatest Generation": The Great Depression and World War Two.

My Thanks to the BOOMER With A View for the body of this posting.I did add a link as well. I have to add my Friend Travis's posting about Pearl Harbor as well.

Pearl Harbor

ABOUT PEARL HARBOR

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the underwater tomb for 1,177 Sailors and Marines
The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the Congress for a Declaration of War in his famous "Day of Infamy" speech. This is a link to that speech and a photo of the Congress in session that day.

The Pearl Harbor survivors have an organization that will soon cease to exist. There can be no new memberships. The remaining members are in their 80's and 90's. This year, 2008, marks the 67th anniversary of the attack. The members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, as they are known, used to travel to Hawaii every five years to commemorate the event. After the 2006 meeting they pretty much agreed that they would not plan on a meeting in 2011.
We respect, honor, and admire these survivors on the anniversary of the most horrific day in each of their lives.

There are two events in American History that shaped what Tom Brokaw has dubbed "the Greatest Generation": The Great Depression and World War Two.

My Thanks to the BOOMER With A View for the body of this posting.I did add a link as well.

I have to add my Friend Travis's posting about Pearl Harbor as well.

Pearl Harbor day

Image via WikipediaToday is Pearl Harbor Day. it will alway be this way. I am posting this link to last years posting. the pictures are fantanstic.to those that served that horrible day I say thank you.to those that attacked our men I say rot in hell.I do not comdemn the Japanese people,I do and will always comdemn their military leaders for the attack.
here is a link as well.

I want to add this link as well.The photo is of an Unknow Victim of the attack.

DECEMBER 7,1941

These are amazing photos!
Photos taken on 7 December 1941, but not developed until 2009. The camera was the old Brownie camera like my Mother used over 70 years ago...
The photos are unbelievable...






Isn't is amazing how a film could last so long in a camera without disintegrating?




Fantastic photos taken 68 years ago. Some of you will have to go to a museum to see what a Brownie camera looked like?


Here is a simple picture of what we are talking about. . .








These photos are absolutely incredible...Read below the first picture and at the end...








PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA


Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941.
Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker. and just recently
taken to be developed.


THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.


I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR!


PEARL HARBOR


December 7th, 1941

Pearl Harbor


On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii By planning this attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island , where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States .)


In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu , he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.




At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.
When it was over, the U.S. Losses were:


Casualties
US Army: 218 KIA, 364 WIA.
US Navy: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.
US MarineCorp: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.
Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.


TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.
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Battleships
USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
USS California (BB-4 4) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage..
USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage.
USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.
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Cruisers
USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage..
USS San Francisco (CA-38) - Light Damage.
USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage.
USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired.
USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..
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Destroyers
USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Cassin - (DD -3 7 2) Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage.
USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.
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Minelayer
USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Seaplane Tender
USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Repair Ship
USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Harbor Tug
USS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Aircraft
188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)
I recieved this as an email on Sept 26,2009 and decided to use this now as a way of Honoring thse men and women long ago.


AWWW...Monday wil be back next Monday. Please keep theose that gave their lives this day in your prayers as well as ALL OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN!