Posted on 09/02/2015 11:21:50 AM PDT by Doogle
We have all seen the different accounts of the two P-40's that got off the ground on Dec. 7th 1941...here's their story.. Enjoy
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS8HWFWaqa4
Later
Loved it! Thanks!
oh yeah
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
for the record:
The Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces lost a total of twenty-nine aircraft missing in action or confirmed as crashed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 December 1941. Nine Mitsubishi Type Zero carrier-based fighters (Reisen or “Zero”), fifteen Aichi Type 99 carrier-based bombers (“KanBaku,” later code-named “Val”), and five Nakajima Type 97 carrier-based attack bombers (“KanKo,” later code-named “Kate”), failed to return to their mother ships, their having been shot-down, accidentally crashed, or simply lost at sea attempting to find their way back to their mobile bases. This study is the result of research into the missions and the circumstances resulting in the loss of each of the twenty-nine aircraft and the fates of their crews.
source:
http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/jimlansdale/japanese_losses_ph/Japanese_losses_Pearl_Harbor.htm
I couldn’t be more proud of my father’s generation. I grew up believing that being an American Man was a good thing.
Pearl Harbor P-40s ping.
Bookmark for later. Was John Belushi in one of them?
Zot, Thank you for the ping. Doogle, thank you for posting the video. It is quite good and accurate. I’ve been reading/studying about Pearl Harbor since I was in grade school in the late 50s.
May God Bless them and may we remember them; thanks for sharing.
We are son, just because some half a fag commie in the white hut thinks different doesn’t make it so.
“I was too young and too stupid to realize the danger I was in.”
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