Pearl Harbor Day

[Rye Miles #13621]

Let’s never forget 

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/day-history-december-7-1941-050229885.html

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Always  

[Cypress Sun]

[PowderRiverCowboy]

 

USS OKLAHOMA  Memorial , Ford  Island Hawaii

 

 

 

Building with Bullet Scares , Hickham AFB

 

 

Jap unexploded torpedo 

 

 

These are very seldom seen photos of the  USS Arizona  , when the memorial was made parts had to cut off these are them. They are in a secured guarded location of Pearl Harbor rusting away, protected from souvenir  hunters . 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Diamond Jake]

Dad was there.  USS Pelias (Submarine tender) moored straight across from Battleship Row.  He was in a "bucket brigade" carrying ammo to their gunners.  I found this battle report on line.

 

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/digital-exhibits-highlights/action-reports/wwii-pearl-harbor-attack/ships-m-r/uss-pelias-as-14-action-report.html

[Eyesa Horg]

[PowderRiverCowboy]

 

USS Arizona from Ford Island  (off limits to general tourist ) as scraps of battle in shore .

 

 

 

 

Air Tower on Ford Island 

 

 

USS Arizona memorial from Ford Island shore

 

 

USS UTAH Most never go see it as its on the other side  Ford Island  

[Cypress Sun]

Powder River, could you provide a few description words with the pic's?

 

Some are obvious...others, not so much. Thanks for the pics.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

At this time, we of the British Empire, had been at war with the Fascist states for about 26 months.

My Father, a newly married, RCAF Regular or Permanent Force member, assigned to the BCATP, came home to his bride, (my Mother), and told her: "We just won the War!" "The Americans will now be fully in!"

Thank-You America for the sacrifices you made. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Good film, "Remember Pearl Harbor" (2016) narrated by Tom Selleck

 

 

 

https://wwiifoundation.org/lesson/remember-pearl-harbor/

[Subdeacon Joe]

7 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

Powder River, could you provide a few description words with the pic's?

 

Some are obvious...others, not so much. Thanks for the pics.

 

Right click and select "Search with Google Lens" and it should pull up a side bar with description.  
The 2nd is the Ford Island Control Tower.
Last is the USS Utah (BB-31)

[Cypress Sun]

 

https://www.fox13news.com/news/world-war-ii-kamikaze-survivor-recalls-infamous-pearl-harbor-attack-82-years-later-i-had-a-job-to-do

[Subdeacon Joe]

World War Pictures

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On the other side of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor from USS Arizona lies the wreck of USS Utah BB-31 / AG-16, also sunk on December 7, 1941 - 81 years ago today

Entombed within the wreck are the remains of 54 Sailors and Baby Nancy

Nancy Lynne Wagner died two days after being born, she was the Daughter of one of the USS Utah sailors; Chief Yeoman Albert Thomas Dewitt Wagner

The Urn with Nancy’s ashes was in a locker on the ship and was supposed to be buried at sea the next trip out of Pearl Harbor

Albert Wagner survived the sinking of USS Utah, but the Urn with his daughter’s ashes wasn’t found during the salvage efforts, so the Sailors still entombed on USS Utah “watch over” her…

Pictures from NPS including a drawing of Utah’s wreck and a sonar mosaic.

 

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Warbird Pinup Girls

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Did you know that the first US pilot to encounter the Japanese at Pearl Harbor was a woman?

Cornelia Clark Fort was a flight instructor on Oahu who was teaching takeoffs and landings to a student in an Interstate Cadet on December 7, 1941, when Fort saw a military airplane on a collision course and swiftly grabbed the controls from her student to pull up over the oncoming aircraft. It was then she saw the rising sun insignia on the wings.

She quickly landed at John Rodgers airport near the mouth of Pearl Harbor. A pursuing Zero strafed her plane and the runway as she and her student ran for cover.

The experience changed her forever, later becoming the second member of what was to be the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASP.

Today marks the #80thAnniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a sobering reminder of the devastation of war that led to the formal entry of the United States into #WorldWarII.

Fort remarked of her service, "I, for one, am profoundly grateful that my one talent, my only knowledge, flying, happens to be of use to my country when it is needed. That’s all the luck I ever hope to have."

#CAF1957 #RiseAbove #WASP #WWII #Aviation #History #Heritage #SheCan #SistersOfTheSky #StrongWomen #Strength #OnThisDay

 

[PowderRiverCowboy]

2 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

At this time, we of the British Empire, had been at war with the Fascist states for about 26 months.

My Father, a newly married, RCAF Regular or Permanent Force member, assigned to the BCATP, came home to his bride, (my Mother), and told her: "We just won the War!" "The Americans will now be fully in!"

Thank-You America for the sacrifices you made. 

 

here is one for you then Eagle Squadron 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

They did a great job, even before the US was forced to enter the war.

Some stayed in the RAF after US entry, some were with the RCAF.

My Father mentioned training a number of them at #2 AOS, Edmonton.

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

[PowderRiverCowboy]

And last ones 

 

USS Utah

 

Inside USS Arizona

 

Anchor from USS Arizona 

 

USS Arizona 

 

A view very few see  diving the Arizona 

USS Utah 

 

not my photo but Wheeler Army Airfield 

[watab kid]

this day was never overlooked in my family home , inspired my fathers enlistment and a cross country drive on the Lincoln highway to do it ,