"You are partially correct."
I stand corrected. There were Japs-Americans in internment camps in Hawaii. Found this cartoon artist interesting... See the name?
Posted on 06/28/2019 5:31:10 AM PDT by C19fan
Pretty much.
As I recall, The Movie Tora Tora Tora showed the Japanese side of the Story,
As I recall, The Movie Tora Tora Tora showed the Japanese side of the Story,
No
John Adams a Harvard grad!
LOL!!
Grannie in Beverly Hillbillies ???
No she was prettier than Hillary ...
DeGaulle also figured out that the German lines were stretched thin before Dunkirk. He saw a weak place and attacked. The only thing which prevented his succeeding was the small German force fought tooth and nail and held him off long enough for help to come.
I was thinking about that video. It’s really good. Thanks for posting.
Which is why Dr. Seuss is now persona non grata to the Left, although he was a hard-core lefty.
Not just that. I posted one of his cartoons involving blacks and got a swift time out.
Yes,
But you were mostly correct. The internment camp was not put in place until 1943 and only housed actual collaborators. There was not mass internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii.
Story is not confirmed true/false, but has multiple sources and been around the ‘net for some time:
“Three mistakes by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor
Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time. In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled, “Reflections on Pearl Harbor” by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941—Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat—you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters every where you looked.
As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, “Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?” Admiral Nimitz’s reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, “The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?”
Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, “What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?” Nimitz explained:
Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk—we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.
Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That’s why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America.
I’ve never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg, Texas —he was a born optimist. But anyway you look at it—Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism.
President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat.
There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST.”
No, because the fully-manned ships would have been better able to fight back. Finding all the ships would also have been harder than when they were all in port.
Yes, TTT was filmed by both Americans and Japanese. It depicted the Japanese as not wanting to go to war.
You got me there.
I’ve watched it several times - they also have one on the Battle of the Coral Sea done the same way. My folks are big on WWII so I get to see what they like.
There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST.”
It depicted the Japanese as not wanting to go to war.
Good point...I can’t argue one way or t’other, but suspect you may be right......
Story attributing the quotes to Nimitz may be apocryphal, and I said so in my my post...Still a good story...
Cheers!
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