Pearl Harbor mystery being investigated

AP via the The Maui ^ | September 4, 2013 | AP

[Daffynition]

HONOLULU (AP) - Historians hope to solve one of the remaining mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack and discover what happened to 29 Japanese airmen and four sailors missing in action.

Most are believed to have been lost at sea around Hawaii and in Pearl Harbor. But four aircrew members may still lie buried in unmarked graves in Ewa Beach and in the hills above Aiea.

"For a long time, we didn't even know the names (of the Japanese losses)," said Daniel Martinez, chief historian for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. "And I can be honest with you, at a given point in our earlier history, we didn't care, because of the nature of the attack."

[dfwgator]

Pearl Harbor was a “limited strike”.

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My father also fought at Okinawa, and later served multiple tours of duty and deployments in China, Korea, Japan, The Philippines, and Vietnam.

I am certain he would have favored some sort of memorial for these men.

Not as part of the Arizona Memorial, but certainly a plaque or some sort of mini-shrine at a local museum.

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Yep. Just like Syria will be...

[2ndDivisionVet]

My father occupied China and Japan and was later in the Korean War and early Vietnam.

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I wonder if they knew each other?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Anything is possible, although Okinawa was a huge battle, akin to D-Day at Normandy.

[BigCinBigD]

“And I can be honest with you, at a given point in our earlier history, we didn’t care, because of the nature of the attack.”

And still don’t.

[BigCinBigD]

They can “display the names”

Inside urinals at the Pearl visitors center. I would be okay with that.

[Cvengr]

We used to say, “There’s nothing wrong with the Hawaiian economy, that a crash in the Japanese stock market wouldn’t cure.”

[Cvengr]

Pearl Harbor was a “limited strike”.

Considering it was only one branch of a 7-branched attack, it's breadth was throughout the reach of the Japanese Empire, leaving them as the controlling party of over half the Earth's surface upon it's conclusion.

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Yeah, but Okinawa, China, Korea, Japan AND Vietnam?

That enhances the chances a bit.

He was helping protect a coal mine from Mao’s troops in post WWII northern China, never got a clear idea of where in Korea he was, big chunks of the 50’s and early 60s at Atsugi, Da Nang in ‘67-68.

Except for shipboard defense on the Maryland off Okinawa, mostly ground support for Marine aviation.

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The other example of that attack that gets me are where the bullets/ordinance hit the outside walls of buildings on the air base. Those were left there as a reminder.

Yes. I remember asking my dad why they hadn't painted them.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He was in communications, eventually becoming a commo chief as a gunnery sergeant. Went back to Okinawa again and again. I know he was in the 9th Defense Battalion in Korea and was with a survey team going to Vietnam in the late 50’s or early 60’s when it was decided we’d be taking the Frog’s place there. He went Fleet Reserve in 1965.

[cynwoody]

While we’re at why not hunt for the charred remains of Hitler and his floozy?

Oddly enough, Adolf's bodyguard Rochus Misch just checked out the other day, at 96.

"He was a wonderful boss," Misch said. "I lived with him for five years. We were the closest people who worked with him ... we were always there. Hitler was never without us day and night."

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On April 28, Misch saw the familiar figures of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Hitler confidant Martin Bormann enter the bunker with a man he had never seen before.

"I asked who it was, and they said that's the civil magistrate who has come to perform Hitler's marriage," Misch said.

That night, Hitler and longtime mistress Eva Braun were married in a short ceremony in which they both pledged they were of pure Aryan descent before taking their vows and signing a registry book.

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"We heard no shot, we heard nothing, but one of those who was in the hallway, I don't remember if it was Guensche or Bormann, said 'Linge, Linge, I think it's done,'" Misch said, referring to Hitler's valet Heinz Linge.

"Then everything was really quiet, everything was still ... who opened the door I don't remember, Guensche or Linge. They opened the door, and I naturally looked, and then there was a short pause and the second door was opened... and I saw Hitler lying on the table like so," Misch said, putting his head down on his hands on his living-room table.

"And Eva lay like so on the sofa with knees up, her head to him. I don't remember now if Hitler sat on the sofa or on a chair next to it." Eva Braun had died of poisoning and Hitler had shot himself.

An OK, if not optimal, outcome for the European Theater.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

It also heralded the death of the battleship as the mainstay of naval power and the birth of carrier warfare as it’s replacement.

Japan has a consulate in Honolulu. If feel they must then may I suggest build it next to there.

[Huskrrrr]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

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Unlikely then. Still, it would have been kewl...

[John S Mosby]

So true. And like the muzzies who attacked NYC and Pentagon.. now they have a mosque in NYC as a victory tab, and special treatment in the military and have infiltrated our govt with a “cut-out” fraud as their leader without a history, and a DCIA who is a catholic convert to islam? And sharia law trying to be implemented into our own sacred Constitution and courts?—amazing. Just like the Japs attack Pearl and after the war the foreign Japs moved in and acquired our land. Should not have been allowed, ever. Not taking anything away from the Nisei who served in Italy— they paid the price, like all our Daddies did.

A song written by a friend, and performed by real US Navy Men:
“Daddy Was a Navy Man”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaR1MWiVhzk

“Old Sailors Never Die, they just Sail Away”

“Sail ye well. Squared Away!”

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Daffynition.

Historians hope to solve one of the remaining mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack and discover what happened to 29 Japanese airmen and four sailors missing in action... "For a long time, we didn't even know the names (of the Japanese losses)," said Daniel Martinez, chief historian for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. "And I can be honest with you, at a given point in our earlier history, we didn't care, because of the nature of the attack."

Unlike some people, I *would* cross the street to piss on their graves.

[Daffynition]

Not only do we have the stress of straying from our roots with the Constitution, now we need, more than ever, to rebuke revisionist history being shoved down our throats.