Posted on 12/07/2017 11:16:30 AM PST by mairdie
The full horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour has been laid bare in newly colorized pictures released on the 76th anniversary of the assault.
In just 90 minutes, more than 2,400 US servicemen and civilians lost their lives while 17 ships were damaged or lost - dragging America into the Second World War and forever changing the course of the conflict.
The pictures here show the wrecks of the USS California, which sank after being hit by two torpedoes and two bombs, and the USS Oklahoma, which was holed by four torpedoes and capsized.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Don’t laugh. Those early 1940s air-to-sea missiles were devastating!
Not original, Red. The title reads “Newly colorized images have brought home the full horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the 76th anniversary of the assault (pictured, the USS West Virginia, which was hit by seven torpedoes)”
The photographs are the work of Cardiff-based British electrician, Royston Leonard, 55, who painstakingly added color to the images: ‘The photos show what was an island at peace hit by the horror of war.
It’s just that his work is well above the average colorizing.
“Missile assault??”
UK paper, British terminology.
They define torpedos as:
“A cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target.”
They would only have put it in if Royston Leonard had colorized it, which he apparently didn’t. But you can see it would have been a beautiful piece to colorize.
LOL! Nice try, but everybody knows the Germans didn’t have missiles until much later in the war.
Fascinating. Like the thread conversation on moggies and cats.
I was thinking the same thing.
Missile assault?
You can’t possibly mean that they didn’t include the scene in the later color remakes?? Tell me it isn’t true.
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
“Fascinating. Like the thread conversation on moggies and cats.”
Yep.
The Brits and Americans are two peoples, separated by a common language.
“Forget it, he’s rolling.”
Yeah, but he left out the good part about the Germans at Pearl Harbor...
May the glow of Atom guide your path.
My FIL was on the USS Helena, they were badly damaged but limped back to San Diego for repairs and headed to the Pacific theatre.
Missile, eh? Wow.
Bill Clinton
Ping
Don’t laugh. Those early 1940s air-to-sea missiles were devastating!
“Missile assault??”
Yes. When the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor.
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