Thanks
He’s got a few long form interviews on youtube. Interesting stuff about his WW2 experiences. I was watching them a couple weeks ago. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0w46KHDJGs
Thank you. Close family was picket duty submarine command accompanying the USS Enterprise, and six hours out of Pearl on the 7th December. Took the messages, outside the closed sub nets “this is no drill, keep out of port..” The sub left in early October with the Lexington and the Enterprise, ferrying aircraft to Midway.
They were fully loaded with torpedoes and all ammo, and had orders for “weapons free” against any Japanese shipping. A month before Dec. 7th. FDR knew, and Churchill too, as the brits had cracked the jap codes of the time.
Family’s memory coming into Pearl (once they survived surface attacks from the US destroyers mistaking them for jap mini-subs) was of the harbor on fire, bodies on fire in the water, the Arizona still burning. They refueled from the untouched (the 3rd wave Jap attack was not carried out- called off by Yamamoto) tank farm- took on torpedoes and went back out on war patrol into 1942. Vivid memory, never forgotten, by him and by our family to this day.
Your son’s Scout project— well done!
We should also never forget the simultaneous attacks on Manila, Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, and British Malaya- which, along with Taiwan, are now either targets or under control (Hong Kong) of the Chinese Communists. Ironic how the world shifts and turns, but we have learned unless we keep our heads in the sand.