Thanks knarf.
Posted on 05/28/2016 1:07:36 PM PDT by knarf
Long forgotten, private color film of the actual attack on Pearl Harbor
My DIL’s parents,residents of Honolulu,were in their early teens on that day and remember the dreadful fear very well.
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I have to admit that was the first footage of it that really unnerved me.
Maybe because I’ve seen the popularly-known footage so many times, it loses some of its punch.
This looks, I dont know, a bit more “raw” even in it degraded state.
To think that my mother, a fancy free and adventurous young woman, was standing along the beach on her way to work, watching the attack and in terrible fear for her friends on board the ships.
Well thanks, I don’t go to Facebook (never will).
Is there another location of the film ..??
All gave some. Some gave all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dznqNWIwvik&feature=youtu.be
My mother was in her mid-20s when she woke up on the other side of Diamondhead (with her father, a civilian Army employee) with a couple of girl friends spending the night. They heard the bombs, but that was normal, as ships frequently had shooting exercises at sea near the island. Then they heard neighbors coming, talking excitedly. Then the radio came on. She was in the first ship out of there, she said, because people knew what the Japanese did in Nanking and other places in China.
There is more on the youtube video.
My stepmother’s dad was stationed on the Tennessee. I believe it was right next to the Arizona. He said that his ship got very little damage because the Arizona was smoking so heavily that the Japs must have thought the Tennessee had been hit already so they didn’t bother attacking it.
Thanks!
Sorry Japan! No Apologies!
The Tennessee was just ahead of the Arizona on Battleship Row. And it was between the West Virginia and Ford Island.
See this map: http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/PearlHarbor/shipsPearlHarbor/ship-positions-pearl-harbor.html
Over 2,400 Americans were killed. Did prez. barack Hussein Obama mention this on his recent trip to Hiroshima?
I kind of doubt it.
Thank you for posting this film of Pearl Harbor
I’m thankful your mother got out... we would have been one freeper short...
Thanks for the ping. Just in time for Memorial Day.
My best friend’s dad was a sailor on one of the ships. He would never speak of it to anyone.
Thanks knarf.
YW ... my brother sent it to me
Facebook? No.
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