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Pearl Harbor: shocking colorized photographs show the horror of the missile assault
Daily Mail ^ | 7 December 2017 | Chris Pleasance

Posted on 12/07/2017 11:16:30 AM PST by mairdie

The full horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour has been laid bare in newly colorized pictures released on the 76th anniversary of the assault.

In just 90 minutes, more than 2,400 US servicemen and civilians lost their lives while 17 ships were damaged or lost - dragging America into the Second World War and forever changing the course of the conflict.

The pictures here show the wrecks of the USS California, which sank after being hit by two torpedoes and two bombs, and the USS Oklahoma, which was holed by four torpedoes and capsized.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: dayofinfamy; december7th1941; pearlharbor
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To: PGR88

Don’t laugh. Those early 1940s air-to-sea missiles were devastating!


21 posted on 12/07/2017 11:27:23 AM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Red Steel

Not original, Red. The title reads “Newly colorized images have brought home the full horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the 76th anniversary of the assault (pictured, the USS West Virginia, which was hit by seven torpedoes)”

The photographs are the work of Cardiff-based British electrician, Royston Leonard, 55, who painstakingly added color to the images: ‘The photos show what was an island at peace hit by the horror of war.

It’s just that his work is well above the average colorizing.


22 posted on 12/07/2017 11:30:36 AM PST by mairdie
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To: kevao
Surprised they didn't put this pic in the article....


23 posted on 12/07/2017 11:31:00 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: PGR88

“Missile assault??”

UK paper, British terminology.

They define torpedos as:

“A cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target.”


24 posted on 12/07/2017 11:31:57 AM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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To: dfwgator

They would only have put it in if Royston Leonard had colorized it, which he apparently didn’t. But you can see it would have been a beautiful piece to colorize.


25 posted on 12/07/2017 11:32:15 AM PST by mairdie
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Nice try, but everybody knows the Germans didn’t have missiles until much later in the war.


26 posted on 12/07/2017 11:32:46 AM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
This can't be shown in color either. It is too heart wrenching. Image and video hosting by TinyPic
27 posted on 12/07/2017 11:32:46 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: Pelham

Fascinating. Like the thread conversation on moggies and cats.


28 posted on 12/07/2017 11:32:48 AM PST by mairdie
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To: PGR88

I was thinking the same thing.

Missile assault?


29 posted on 12/07/2017 11:32:54 AM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: tumblindice

You can’t possibly mean that they didn’t include the scene in the later color remakes?? Tell me it isn’t true.


30 posted on 12/07/2017 11:34:08 AM PST by mairdie
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To: dfwgator

“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”


31 posted on 12/07/2017 11:34:10 AM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: mairdie

“Fascinating. Like the thread conversation on moggies and cats.”

Yep.

The Brits and Americans are two peoples, separated by a common language.


32 posted on 12/07/2017 11:35:23 AM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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To: dfwgator

“Forget it, he’s rolling.”

Yeah, but he left out the good part about the Germans at Pearl Harbor...


33 posted on 12/07/2017 11:35:37 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

May the glow of Atom guide your path.


34 posted on 12/07/2017 11:35:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: CGASMIA68

My FIL was on the USS Helena, they were badly damaged but limped back to San Diego for repairs and headed to the Pacific theatre.


35 posted on 12/07/2017 11:36:11 AM PST by tiki
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To: mairdie

Missile, eh? Wow.


36 posted on 12/07/2017 11:36:16 AM PST by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: PIF

Bill Clinton


37 posted on 12/07/2017 11:36:44 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: JayGalt; ADemocratNoMore; QualityMan; topspinr

Ping


38 posted on 12/07/2017 11:37:08 AM PST by mairdie
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To: kevao

Don’t laugh. Those early 1940s air-to-sea missiles were devastating!


Against moored ships, yes. But of the 281 bombs dropped by B-17s during the battle of Midway, not one of these so much as scratched a Japanese vessel.


39 posted on 12/07/2017 11:37:54 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: PGR88

“Missile assault??”

Yes. When the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor.


40 posted on 12/07/2017 11:38:17 AM PST by beergarden
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