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To: Maine Mariner

Wasn’t Manila also hit? Dec 8, on the other side of the international date line.


25 posted on 12/06/2015 4:21:08 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yes, and I believe two British battleships were also sunk with the loss of many men including Admiral Tom Phillips.
The two ships were the Prince of Wales and Repulse.


30 posted on 12/06/2015 4:44:36 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I think the attack on the Philippines came 8 hours later, and MacArthur still had left his airplanes as sitting ducks. He was treated as a war hero but the two commanders at Pearl Harbor were made scapegoats. Oliver North’s “War Stories” last night had a segment about them and the efforts of the grandson of one of the two to get his grandfather exonerated.


35 posted on 12/06/2015 4:57:26 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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