The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Pearl Harbor (12/7/1941) - Dec. 7th, 2003

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[SAMWolf]

A "buckleswasher", You know, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power in Pirate and Bucanner flics. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

LINK to the movie, Master and Commander

[Soaring Feather]

Love this buckleswasher clip!!!

LOL

[SpookBrat]

SAM, I wish you could be at our historic colonial Christmas party in the morning. We're having authentic Gingerbread, Wassail, and Christmas carols written before or during the Revolutionary war period. We'll be making those orange clove balls. They carried them around and smelled them since it stunk so badly back then. LOL Wish you could be there.

[SAMWolf]

Sounds like that would be fun. I know Wassail is some kind of drink but if it doesn't have caffeine now good could it be.

[SAMWolf]

Medal of Honor citation of Chief Radioman Thomas James Reeves

"For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese Forces on 7 December 1941. After the mechanized ammunition hoists were put out of action in the U.S.S. California, REEVES, on his own initiative, in a burning passageway, assisted in the maintenance of an ammunition supply by hand to the antiaircraft guns until he was overcome by smoke and fire, which resulted in his death."

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Medal of Honor citation of Lieutenant Commander Donald Kirby Ross

"For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own life during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese Forces on 7 December 1941. When his station in the forward dynamo room of the U.S.S. Nevada became almost untenable due to smoke, steam and heat, Lieutenant Commander Ross forced his men to leave that station and performed all the duties himself until blinded and unconscious. Upon being rescued and resuscitated, he returned and secured the forward dynamo room and proceeded to the after dynamo room where he was later again rendered unconscious by exhaustion. Again recovering consciousness he returned to his station where he remained until directed to abandon it."

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Medal of Honor citation of Machinist's Mate First Class Robert R. Scott

"For conspicuous devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and complete disregard of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor by Japanese Forces on 7 December 1941. The compartment, in the U.S.S. California, in which the air compressor, to which SCOTT was assigned as his battle station, was flooded as the result of a torpedo hit. The remainder of the personnel evacuated that compartment but SCOTT refused to leave, saying words to the effect 'This is my station and I will stay and give them air as long as the guns are going"."

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Medal of Honor citation of Commander Cassin Young

"For distinguished conduct in action, outstanding heroism and utter disregard of his own safety, above and beyond the call of duty, as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Vestal, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by enemy Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Commander Young proceeded to the bridge and later took personal command of the 3-inch antiaircraft gun. When blown overboard by the blast of the forward magazine explosion of the U.S.S. Arizona, to which the U.S.S. Vestal was moored, he swam back to his ship. The entire forward part of the U.S.S. Arizona was a blazing inferno with oil afire on the water between the two ships; as a result of several bomb hits, the U.S.S. Vestal was afire in several places, was settling and taking on a list. Despite severe enemy bombing and strafing at the time, and his shocking experience of having been blown overboard, Commander Young, with extreme coolness and calmness, moved his ship to an anchorage distant from the U.S.S. Arizona, and subsequently beached the U.S.S. Vestal upon determining that such action was required to save his ship."

[SpookBrat]

Actually, I make it with a tea bag, so it will have a little caffeine. :)

[snippy_about_it]

Wonderful stories SAM.

So many gave so much, men swimming back to their burning ships, staying on station while risking their lives and many giving their lives. It's important to remember these stories, thanks for adding them to the thread today.

[SAMWolf]

Tea's ok. As long as it's hot, I guess that's what counts.>

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome Snippy. I thin Samwise's cartoon this morning says it all.

[PhilDragoo]

Yamamoto Isoroku (1941-1943) never said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

That line was only uttered in Tora Tora Tora (1970).

Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes

The former influenced FDR at Quebec as had Hiss at Yalta. Both proved Soviet spies by Venona decrypts.

Hiss' outing by Nixon was the reason the latter was hounded by the left including HRC, intern to US Communist Robert Treuhaft.

High resolution

Aerial photograph of Ford Island during the attack on December 7, 1941. A plume of water is seen rising near battleship row from a bomb strike.

The incompletely camouflaged fuel tanks between Kamehameha Highway and North Road (top right) were clearly visible to the Japanese attackers, one of whom took this photograph.

The tanks were not bombed, which allowed elements of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, primarily its aircraft carriers, to continue operating at Pearl Harbor instead of withdrawing to the West Coast after the attack.

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John T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth, John T. Flynn, 1948/Fox & Wilkes, 1998, page 274:

The President, however, declared he was for those who wanted to stay out of the war while he secretly decided to go into the war, and his public avowals were the precise opposite of his secret intentions. He did not tell the truth to the American people and from the beginning to the end pursued a course of deliberate deception of them about his plans.

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Kimmel did his part, having the fleet in port every Sunday. Not sending the fleet out, in order to "avoid alarming the public".

Hence the top-down denial: Bellow, Wheeler and Hickam: "no one believed the reports".

Believe this:

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Phil.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo

I see you covered "The Omega"

They have sown the wind,

now they shall reap the whirlwind"

[GATOR NAVY]

You're just a whippersnapper!!

That's what I tell my wife but she points out the gray hairs and the beginning of the beer gut...

[Soaring Feather]

Good Night Wolf!
Ya done good!

[SAMWolf]

Good Night Feather. Beautiful Wolf!

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Hair? Well, no beer gut yet anyway?

Tell her to behave or you'll trade her in for two 21 year olds.

[Soaring Feather]

Good night snippy, see you tomorrow.

[Victoria Delsoul]

So you are Sagittarius as well, that's great to know. Sorry, I'm late replying, but you know what they say, better late....

[Victoria Delsoul]

22!!! Again????

Yep, last year, this year, next year … and from now on you won't have to ask me. Life is so much easier this way. LOL!!!