It is lit at 5 pm every Pearl Harbor Day and only on that day and night.
Pearl Harbor Day Beacon Lighting Ceremony
Seen this? (((Ping)))
Almost HALF their bombs and torpedoes were duds, most dont realize it could have been TWICE as bad.
The Japs wanted to run a pre-attack seaplane on Pearl to confirm carriers or no.
But we put a cruiser at their planned refuel location for that plane (intercepted chatter)
The Japs had to cancel that.
It was the one lucky thing we did right.
In a way, I agree. We struck back and put Japan on the defensive almost precisely six months after the attack. However, even if Japan had won at Midway, they would've eventually been overextended, and maybe would've been stopped at Hawaii. By then, Americans would've been so pissed at Japan that the only Japanese left in the world would've been the Japanese who emigrated to America before the war.
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This YouTube maker is a genius, makes the key points so simply and concisely.
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I know it by heart, but downloaded for later viewing. Thanks for posting it.
Back in the ‘80s, I was sent to Hawaii to install some software at the Marine PX in Kaneohe Air Station. In my spare time I cruised around the island. On the way to Pearl Harbor to pay my respects to the Arizona memorial, I looked up at the mountains and had that creepy deja vu thingy - REALLY uncomfortable.
It wasn’t until I got back to the States that I realized that I had seen countless videos of the Japs coming in over those mountains, which was why they looked so familiar to me.
A very sobering experience.
It is lit at 5 pm every Pearl Harbor Day and only on that day and night.
Pearl Harbor Day Beacon Lighting Ceremony
Germans Bomb Pearl Harbor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVY7w9DqZ_A