Posted on 12/07/2024 8:50:04 AM PST by John S Mosby
Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
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I was 6 years old walking home from School when I heard the News of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I still have not desire to welcome Oriental or any other Foreign immigration.
I too remember those feelings. I was there in 1987 and what struck me was the overwhelming number of tourists, I would say 90%, were Japanese. As a young military guy, I was not expecting that.
I take it that this was after Sunday School?
May the Memory of all American WW2 veterans who have passed on be Eternal!
And Many Years to all living American WW2 veterans!
I was five years old. We were having dinner with the people next door. My wonderful father didn’t believe I should have toast at the table until adults finished so I was in the living room with the radio on. When I heard the news, I told the adults.
The next day, every man in America volunteered to serve the country. My dad was 4F (ineligible} because of heart condition.
Remember Pearl Harbor--Carson Robison.
I have some respect for the Japanese Navy. But their Army was a bunch of thugs, who even exceeded the cruelty of the Nazis.
Democrats get us into wars from their childish incompetence.
I blame the Vichy French for letting the Japs have their bases in Indochina, which made it possible for them to strike The Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, which was the main reason for them attacking Pearl, to head off the US from intervening.
“I have some respect for the Japanese Navy. But their Army was a bunch of thugs, who even exceeded the cruelty of the Nazis.”
Don’t. The Japanese Navy was just as bad. The perps of the Manila massacres were mostly Naval troops.
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I was five years old. We were having dinner with the people next door. My wonderful father didn’t believe I should have toast at the table until adults finished so I was in the living room with the radio on. When I heard the news, I told the adults
The next day, every man in America volunteered to serve the country. My dad was 4F (ineligible} because of heart condition.
Like "Is" the meaning of "Never" is open to question.
So was my Grandfather.
Well, they were sailors in name only. Labeled Special Landing Force, they were a creation of the Japanese Navy’s need to have troops when the Japanese Army wouldn’t provide them. They tended to be more fanatical than sometimes even the Army troops, these were the troops that held out to the last in Manilla, where the Japanese Army actually wanted to withdraw from the city.
In 1940 the US population was 132 million. If half were males, that's 76 million. At least half of those would have been too young, too old, or not physically fit for military service. So 16 million out of 38 means nearly half served (and it could have been a larger proportion of those able to serve).
C-SPAN today had a program on how FDR reacted to the news about the attack (which he received at 3 p.m. Eastern time), up to his speech to Congress on Dec. 8. Very interesting. They ran the audio of his speech to Congress (only 6 minutes long). They may have it on again.
Yeah, I was watching Okinawan high school baseball last year and they paused for a minute of remembrance like Israel for the Japanese atrocities (mass forced suicide, mass rushes as American troops, poisoning, starvation) that the okinawans endured. Many okinawans see themselves as Ryukyu people and not Japanese.
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