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| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - December 07 2010 : 07:54:29 AM
Air Raid on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. A total of twelve ships sank or were beached in the attack and nine additional vessels were damaged. More than 160 aircraft were destroyed and more than 150 others damaged.
A hurried dispatch from the ranking United States naval officer in Pearl Harbor, Commander in Chief Pacific, to all major navy commands and fleet units provided the first official word of the attack at the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base. It said simply: AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL.
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Naval Dispatch from the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) announcing the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. |
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| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - December 07 2010 : 12:19:39 PM
Here's a good article...
Pearl Harbor Attack |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - December 07 2010 : 08:42:53 AM
My daughter works in a nursing home as a Certified Nursing Assistant. When she has male patients who are in their late 80s or early 90s, she always asks them if they are a World War II veteran.
Last year, she had a patient who said yes, he was. She asked him more about it, and he somewhat reluctantly told her. He was a medic, stationed at Schofield Barracks. Yes. He was there. And even after 68 years, he still found it difficult to talk about.
He's gone, now, like so many of the others. Soon, there will be none of those wonderful, brave, old soldiers left, and our world will be very lonely without them.
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