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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: jonno
You also have to realize that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. Like today's Islamic terrorists who use humans as shields, the Japanese hid their military installations within civilian populations. I've already partially read "the rape of Nanking". The atrocities of the genocidal Japanese army make Pearl Harbor seem like a picnic. The treatment of American prisoners also show they deserved no kid gloves in that war.

There is also the matter of Japanese internment camps. The armchair moralists don't seem to realize that we were in a struggle for survival, and there were Japanese spies and saboteurs living in the U.S. If we went too far to defend the USA, it's not for those later sitting in their easy chairs to decide. Nanking could have happened here, too. We were, after all, losing the war at first. Most of those interned were duel citizens who also held some allegiance to Japan.
61 posted on 12/07/2017 12:12:45 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: mairdie

bump


62 posted on 12/07/2017 12:21:35 PM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: mairdie

It wasn’t a missile assault


63 posted on 12/07/2017 12:24:15 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: PGR88
Missile assault??

Yeah, the Germans had that stuff.

64 posted on 12/07/2017 12:24:35 PM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: dfwgator

The Nazi’s Did bomb Pearl Harbor!
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What Is that of?


65 posted on 12/07/2017 12:28:29 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Nifster

“It wasn’t a missile assault”

Seems like it’s a “British thing”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3611603/posts?page=24#24


66 posted on 12/07/2017 12:29:15 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: mairdie

History could repeat itself:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/07/north-korea-could-launch-its-own-nuclear-pearl-harbor-attacking-us-potentially-killing-millions.html


67 posted on 12/07/2017 12:57:33 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for your post 58. Mr. Murphy was a lucky man!


68 posted on 12/07/2017 1:03:47 PM PST by zot
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To: mairdie

“Missile” assault?


69 posted on 12/07/2017 1:13:30 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Ban pre-shredded cheese now! Make America Grate Again.)
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To: dfwgator

70 posted on 12/07/2017 1:20:56 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: dfwgator

I was looking for that.... :-)


71 posted on 12/07/2017 1:24:48 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: PGR88
Missile assault??

In British English, a "missile" is a thrown object. So I would guess dumb bombs and torpedoes both count.

72 posted on 12/07/2017 1:27:59 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: kevao
Don’t laugh. Those early 1940s air-to-sea missiles were devastating!


Yes, they were!
73 posted on 12/07/2017 1:38:33 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: CGASMIA68

Wow. Sure must have shaken him to the core.


74 posted on 12/07/2017 4:11:18 PM PST by madison10 (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

An appropriate response to the atrocity perpetrated on the men at Pearl Harbor.

For all the whining about the effects of radiation burns etc for the civilians, there’s no mention of the burns our sailors suffered at the hands of the Japanese.

And the accounts of men trapped in ships underwater who slowly died because there was no way to get them out.


75 posted on 12/07/2017 4:11:58 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom

I am thoroughly convinced that our response was not only justified, but righteous. With one caveat: the response should have come sooner.


76 posted on 12/07/2017 4:30:25 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: madison10

Ya know with all the talk of PTSD these days the greatest generation folks never seem to talk much about all that. They seem to take it in stride. I was a kid and maybe couldn’t see it in the Dad if it was there but he went to work every day and came home for 30 years and never a peep.
Kicked my butt a few times maybe that had something to do with it all who knows.


77 posted on 12/07/2017 4:50:06 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

I think they tended to call it shell shock in those days.

I had a friend whose father had that. Loud noises would just push him over the edge.

But still, people today are way to coddled.


78 posted on 12/07/2017 5:00:02 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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