"A Day of Infamy, Two Years of Hard Work" (unpublished NY Times article written a year after Pearl)

New York TImes ^ | Robert Trumbull

[ken5050]

Yes, I am enthusiastically recommending an article in today's NY Times. Of course, it was written during WW II. On its website today, the Times has a never-published 15,000 word story, written by their correspondent at Pearl Harbor, about the amazing efforts that were made to repair the Pacific fleet after the Japanese attack. There's also some really wonderful archival photos, and other links. Well worth reading now, or bookmarking for later on. Just clink the link above

[ken5050]

The article was killed by wartime censorship. Surprising that the Times didn't publish it anyway..

[bcsco]

ping for later.

[ken5050]

I trust this is OK..I didn't except anything from the article....just wrote my brief intro to the article, and gave a link...please make any changes needed..thanks..

[Eagle of Liberty]

bookmarking for later.

Thanks for the link.

[baseballmom]

bttt

[TankerKC]

One year after the attack, with the harbor still choked with wreckage, Trumbull wrote a 15,000-word, three-part series about the round-the-clock operation. But wartime censorship killed the articles.

They wouldn't today. The articles would be published and the NYT would call for the head of the Navy Secretary for the quagmire in the harbor.

Wait, FDR was a Dem...never mind...

[colorado tanker]

The article was killed by wartime censorship. Surprising that the Times didn't publish it anyway.

Gee, there really was a time when the Times regarded itself as an American company.

[ken5050]

The guy could really write..his wordcraft is superb....concise, droll, on target...loved the line about the RAdm in charge.."...He surveyed the damage done to the fleet. His job now was to get it undone..." Doesn't get much better than that..

BTW..15,000 words, and nowhere does the word "quagmire" appear...hmmm?

[Ciexyz]

Kudos to all our WW II veterans, we remember them with respect and gratitude for their service.

[CyberAnt]

NO! It was because we had a DEMOCRAT president! HELLO!!

Nothing's changed with how the NYT reports.

[Valin]

That was then...this is now.

[tubebender]

I was struck by the leanness of the civilians that worked on the recovery. That was a result of the depression years prior.

I was talking to my brother earlier this evening about his thoughts when Pearl was hit. We lived in a little town in western Fresno county and he said that it was a high fog that day and a B25 appeared and nearly hit the water tower near where he was working.

He was about 19 and he and two friends rode the Greyhound bus to the La area from Fresno County to work in the shipyards.They were sent back because they all had a high draft status. He was drafted and they sent him the Army Air Corps where he became a bombardier on a B17. He flew 17 missions over Germany and was shot down on August 14 1944 and spent the rest of the war in Stalag III etc.

In later life I lived next door to a Naval veteran of Pearl and his buddy was killed next to him and it affected him till he died in 1985. His son became a Navy Seal during the Vietnam war and returned home with a wife and child from there...

[bitt]

thanks for the stories...

spent tonight at a party sitting next to an 85-year old tail gunner of a B-17, and he had some remarkable thoughts on today's war, too.

wish my Dad were here to quiz.....

[tubebender]

This Keith Ferris painting depicts the mission my brother was shot down... FORTRESS UNDER FIRE