FReeper Canteen ~ Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ~ 08 December 2022

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ~

On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island, where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States.) In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu, he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets. At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor. Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.

Information from here...LOTS of pictures

Canteen Mission Statement

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Pearl Harbor Timeline

USS Ward, Report of Pearl Harbor Attack

The Search for the World War II Japanese Midget Submarine
Sunk off Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

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[Kathy in Alaska]

The city folks that plow the streets seem to be really careful, at least on my end of the cul-de-sac. They plow all the snow to the sides (the street can get VERY narrow at times) but have a “gate” on the end of the blade that they put down and not leave more snow in driveways. (Altho I have heard more than a few complaints about leaving berms of HARD PACKED snow at the end of driveways because they didn’t put the gate down.

I haven’t seen any downed mailboxes, or heard complaints on my street. Our biggest problems are cul-de-sacs are low on the list, and when a new plow driver tries to plow the end of the cul-de-sac snow out towards the yards. They usually find out pretty quickly that means big trucks and emergency vehicles, etc lose their turning radius. So here at the end they purposely plow the snow into a pile in the middle.

I have a plow service now for the driveway and can only wait til they get here. My mailbox has been taken out by a pickup doing donuts in the summer. And they do like to slide on the ice...of course never knowing if they will take out a mailbox or not.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I did...I do try to catch up, albeit late. LOL!! Now answered. 😁

[Songcraft]

:-)

(I figured you were really busy, with 2 feet of snow up there!)

[MomwithHope]

Thanks for cross posting. So many of us here live in the northern climates (me - west Michigan). I have a deep rooted parsley plant in my garden that is green still but not growing obviously, experiment to see if it makes it through the winter.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

We’re in Houston. It is almost the tropics here. ;-)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Very nice! Cheered me right up! :)

Sorry I missed your PING until now - been down with a cold.