Eighty-three years!!

[Blackwater 53393]

I ain’t forgetting!! 
 

Thanks to those who bowed their heads for a moment and then stood up and gave what they had to make to world a better place and preserve our nation!!

 

The greatest contribution from the greatest generation!!!

 

 

 

Edited December 7, 2024 by Blackwater 53393

[Chas B. Wolfson, SASS #11104]

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[Cypress Sun]

 

 

[Eyesa Horg]

  

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I never forget.  It happened just 98 days before I was born.

[Trailrider #896]

4 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I never forget.  It happened just 98 days before I was born.

If it had happened about two weeks earlier, I might be four years younger! 

[Cactus Jack Calder]

I never forget either. It happened 3 years before I was born. In elementary school the teacher always announced my birthday as a “day that shall live in infamy “. My friends had a good time busting me about that.

 

CJ

 

[Pat Riot]

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

51 minutes ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:

I never forget either. It happened 3 years before I was born. In elementary school the teacher always announced my birthday as a “day that shall live in infamy “. My friends had a good time busting me about that.

 

CJ

 

I’m sure your mother never forgot it.

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

My dad's birthday was December 7.  He was at the recruiting station in his small town on the morning of December 8.  They would not let him join because he had just turned 16.  The next year on December 7 he joined the Navy.  We lived in Hawaii in pre-statehood days and several sunken ships were still sticking out of the water.  The Arizona superstructure was still attached.  They removed it when they built the memorial.

[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

[bgavin]

Dad was sunk there.
Fortunately for me, he survived, as I was issued 9 years later.