Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Let’s never forget https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/day-history-december-7-1941-050229885.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Jake Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Powder River, could you provide a few description words with the pic's? Some are obvious...others, not so much. Thanks for the pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Good film, "Remember Pearl Harbor" (2016) narrated by Tom Selleck https://wwiifoundation.org/lesson/remember-pearl-harbor/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 https://www.fox13news.com/news/world-war-ii-kamikaze-survivor-recalls-infamous-pearl-harbor-attack-82-years-later-i-had-a-job-to-do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 World War Pictures ornepdsSto207,rD760fimc5le9 c5am1ae2ambcc2i mchl7e05t71uai27 · 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Warbird Pinup Girls · 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 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 , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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