On this day in history, Dec. 7, 1941,
Pearl Harbor attack kills 2,403 Americans,
launches US into WWII
Fox News,
by
Kerry Byrne
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/7/2022 1:36:21 AM
Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a "sleeping giant" and thrusting an enraged America into World War II, on this day in history, Dec. 7, 1941. (Video) "For nearly two hours, Japanese firepower rained down upon American ships and servicemen," reports the National World War II Museum.
The savage raid by aircraft carrier-borne warplanes sunk or damaged 21 U.S. warships — including the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma — destroyed or damaged 347 aircraft, and killed 2,403 Americans.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 12/7/2022 3:54:36 AM (No. 1350855)
Like so many other families, my mom had four older brothers who joined the navy during the war. Sometimes they would be able to see each other when they came home on leave. They would yuck it up telling war stories and horribly inappropriate jokes. Mom was in her very early teens and would listen unobserved. While she didnt understand the jokes, she knew they got big laughs, so she repeated them at the worst possible times. Once when Grandma's church group was over she told the one about how the sailors in the navy like to ride the waves.
According to Mom, Grandma was humiliated and appalled. The church ladies laughed like crazy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/7/2022 6:59:49 AM (No. 1350938)
We are lucky to have lived through that era of brave patriotic Americans. It truly was the Greatest Generation.
Unfortunately, that generation is quickly dying out and being replaced by whiners, slackers, hedonists, brainwashed millennials, and invading hordes of replacement breeders of subservient dependents on government. There is a much bigger and much deadlier Pearl Harbor coming our way.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/7/2022 7:54:24 AM (No. 1350973)
Wow after reading what happened on 7 December 1941 is sounds almost as bad as 6 January 2020.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/7/2022 8:14:56 AM (No. 1350994)
We are under a far more threatening and insidious attack by Left Wing lawlessness which might very well prove fatal to our republic. It IS Jan 6, 2021 that will live in infamy!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/7/2022 8:27:25 AM (No. 1351012)
Today was the day my father's life changed. He was about to graduate college and had hoped to go into the Merchant Marines. He was in the library studying when someone ran in yelling "They bombed Pearl Harbor"
He joined the Navy and spent the war in the Pacific where he was at a lot of battles, most notably Okinawa.
He died at the age of 93. Greatest generation ever - I love you Daddy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
broken01 12/7/2022 8:35:37 AM (No. 1351019)
It was an honor and a privilege to have my first Naval command be base at Pearl Harbor. For a young sailor born in the hills of WVA in the summer of 69 (remember the Brian Adams song) it was a experience like no other. It was also the start of an adventure that would take a young man whose only out of state experience was visiting relatives in VA around our world and back again over half a dozen times. I've been all over the history of the attack on December 7, 1941, With dozens of trips to the Arizona Memorial and Ford Island (which I hear has a bridge that takes you there instead of boats). To actually talking to WWII veterans. One who was a crew member on the USS Arizona. I didn't want to pry into the man's past but he was more than happy to tell me what happened that day. Out of all of the books, magazines, tv shows, movies memorial nothing could compare to someone that was there telling me all about it. He's gone on to be interned with his shipmates in the Arizona Memorial which is more than fitting. I'll always cherish my first Naval command at PH along with the living history I was privileged to witness back then. Have a blessed day.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/7/2022 8:39:35 AM (No. 1351025)
Later in WWII, my late dad was in Belgium as a rifleman in the 84th infantry and witnessed a different show firsthand- The Battle of the Bulge. Not many of the WWII servicemen and women are still here. But the ones who are still here still remember the Pearl Harbor attack and the Battle of the Bulge like these happened yesterday.
My wife and I went to the Pearl Harbor memorial in Oahu about 30 years ago on Pearl Harbor Day. Interestingly, we were in a minority. Nearly all of the other visitors appeared to be of Japanese descent. A elderly Japanese woman spoke to my wife with fairly good English and said the Japanese government lied to its own people about why the attacked was staged. Considerable remorse amongst the older Japanese population to this day. None the less, payback for the 1941 attack came in August 1945 to be sure.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 12/7/2022 8:42:21 AM (No. 1351029)
RIP.
Unfortunately, our country is filled with people, mostly younger, who think Pearl Harbor is Chinese takeout place.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 12/7/2022 8:58:20 AM (No. 1351045)
And now, only 81 years later, the country is being converted into a totalitarian hellscape with the few freedoms that remain rapidly being erased.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Delilah 12/7/2022 9:56:23 AM (No. 1351088)
I remember Pearl Harbor bombing well. I was 8 years old and heard the announcement over the car radio with my parents. Later one brother served in the battle of the bulge while the other was in the navy in the south Pacific. Many years later (at the age of 50) I married a veteran of the war who volunteered at the age of 17 and served the last year of the war in the Pacific, oddly enough part of the time on Guam where my brother was.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
janjan 12/7/2022 4:20:07 PM (No. 1351431)
My great Uncle was there on one of the ships in the harbor. He survived it. It wasn’t his time I guess.
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