[Berlin_Freeper]

Last surviving member of Enola Gay crew recalls bombing of Hiroshima
“He’s funny and interesting,” said Nati’Lya Fletcher, 13, an eighth-grader at Ridge Road Middle. “Meeting him was an honor.”

a photo taken by a Japanese pilot of the USS West Virginia under attack at Pearl Harbor

Did Japan really plan a surprise attack on the US?
A declaration of war, as it is referred to, was printed on the front page of Japan's newspapers in the evening edition of December 8, but not delivered to the US.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Campbell Soup apologizes for Pearl Harbor Twitter picture

http://tinyurl.com/pxkgnr5

[mc5cents]

"This volume of history should serve as a warning for all in the Free World to beware of allowing too much power to be concentrated in the hands of determined and dangerous narcissists."

As Edmund Burke stated, “The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.”

Amen and amen.

[3Fingas]

I still think that Roosevelt wanted a provocation to draw us into the war. He knew that our trade actions against the Japanese would cause a war. If he didn’t know that, he was a fool.

[3Fingas]

God bless all those wounded and killed that day.

[T-Bird45]

A solid read, along with the linked article on the fixing of blame for Pearl Harbor that went on for many years. Also, as usual, the comments following the article were interesting.

[ArtDodger]

Sneak attack, my butt! The codes were broken and FDR knew as much of the attack plan as the Japanese did. He opened Pearl up like a flower for them.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Navy wife wrote of Pearl Harbor attack

[SampleMan]

the real targets were in Southeast Asia: Hong Kong, Siam, Malaya, Thailand, and the Philippines, as the first of many.

A side issue for sure, but Siam and Thailand are the same country.

[minnesota_bound]

If this happened on Dec 7, 2013 you can bet you would have Bill Clinton blaming the United States as he did when he was in europe shortly after 9/11

obama would be supplying weapons to the Japanese.
Same as he is doing with the terrorist today.

[Fiji Hill]

Warning to the faint-hearted: This two-sided disc by Carson Robison on the Bluebird label is highly politically incorrect:

• Remember Pearl Harbor

• We're Going to Have to Slap...

[Stevenc131]

The real scandal was in the Philippines where MacArthur let his air force be destroyed on the ground. He sat locked in his office for hours after the Pearl Harbor attack doing nothing and ignoring his air officers who begged to be allowed to attack the Japanese air bases in Formosa (Taiwan). Eventually the Japs attacked the U.S. airfields in the Philippines and destroyed all those airplanes sitting useless on the ground.

[blueunicorn6]

What would have happened if the Japanese didn’t attack Pearl Harbor? Would they have taken Australia and then India? How would that have affected Britain? If Britain and her colonies had been defeated, how would that affect the War in Russia? Germany would have been totally focused on Russia and would have had lots of oil.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not a success for them. It wasn’t much of a surprise, and it failed to deliver a crippling blow to the US.

[MUDDOG]

I prefer to think about Midway.

[TADSLOS]

An interesting video of first hand accounts using superimposed images then and now of Pearl Harbor and Ford Island:

Then and Now

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Did not the Japs attack Manila the same day? But because of the International Date Line it was considered the next day (Dec 8)?