Pearl Harbor: shocking colorized photographs show the horror of the missile assault

Daily Mail ^ | 7 December 2017 | Chris Pleasance

[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.

[Telepathic Intruder]

You also have to realize that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. Like today's Islamic terrorists who use humans as shields, the Japanese hid their military installations within civilian populations. I've already partially read "the rape of Nanking". The atrocities of the genocidal Japanese army make Pearl Harbor seem like a picnic. The treatment of American prisoners also show they deserved no kid gloves in that war.

There is also the matter of Japanese internment camps. The armchair moralists don't seem to realize that we were in a struggle for survival, and there were Japanese spies and saboteurs living in the U.S. If we went too far to defend the USA, it's not for those later sitting in their easy chairs to decide. Nanking could have happened here, too. We were, after all, losing the war at first. Most of those interned were duel citizens who also held some allegiance to Japan.

[Albion Wilde]

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[Nifster]

It wasn’t a missile assault

[doorgunner69]

Missile assault??

Yeah, the Germans had that stuff.

[Big Red Badger]

The Nazi’s Did bomb Pearl Harbor!
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What Is that of?

[jonno]

“It wasn’t a missile assault”

Seems like it’s a “British thing”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3611603/posts?page=24#24

[353FMG]

History could repeat itself:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/07/north-korea-could-launch-its-own-nuclear-pearl-harbor-attacking-us-potentially-killing-millions.html

[zot]

Thanks for your post 58. Mr. Murphy was a lucky man!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“Missile” assault?

[Yo-Yo]

[Vendome]

I was looking for that.... :-)

[RansomOttawa]

Missile assault??

In British English, a "missile" is a thrown object. So I would guess dumb bombs and torpedoes both count.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Don’t laugh. Those early 1940s air-to-sea missiles were devastating!

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Yes, they were!

[madison10]

Wow. Sure must have shaken him to the core.

[metmom]

An appropriate response to the atrocity perpetrated on the men at Pearl Harbor.

For all the whining about the effects of radiation burns etc for the civilians, there’s no mention of the burns our sailors suffered at the hands of the Japanese.

And the accounts of men trapped in ships underwater who slowly died because there was no way to get them out.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I am thoroughly convinced that our response was not only justified, but righteous. With one caveat: the response should have come sooner.

[CGASMIA68]

Ya know with all the talk of PTSD these days the greatest generation folks never seem to talk much about all that. They seem to take it in stride. I was a kid and maybe couldn’t see it in the Dad if it was there but he went to work every day and came home for 30 years and never a peep.
Kicked my butt a few times maybe that had something to do with it all who knows.

[metmom]

I think they tended to call it shell shock in those days.

I had a friend whose father had that. Loud noises would just push him over the edge.

But still, people today are way to coddled.