Remember pearl harbor

HiDesertHal

HiDesertHal

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I was 5 at the time.

The Japs launched the attack from 6 aircraft carriers: Akagi, Kaga, Ziukaku, Shokaku, Hiryu, and Soryu.

Yamamoto was disappointed that our carriers were not in the harbor, but at sea at the time, otherwise our entire Paciific Fleet would have been destroyed.

Hal
 

I wasn't born yet. My dad was 16 years old and mom was 9. Incredibly sad moment that changed the history of the world. So many lives would be lost because of Pearl Harbor, besides those who died immediately.
 
I was not born yet, My dad was at Hickam field for training. {actually in Schofield barracks} He said he thought the world was coming to an end. He didn't do anything heroic, said it took awhile but he got hold of a .45, Got off a few shots, but likely hit nothing.
 
I just turned 7 and I remember it....my Father was stuck to our radio and very upset.

During WW2 I remember the scrap iron drives, the ration books, , etc. I still have the ration books from WW2.
 
chic said:
Did you enlist right after that Falcon?
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Not then Chic. But a year later. They didn't accept 17 year olds. Then I joined the Army Air Corps for pilot training.

The AAC eventually became the USAF. Got my silver pilot wings in Altus, Okla. on 9/8/ 44.

George Goebel was my advanced instructor . (He still talks about it on the Johnny Carson show. (Or did.)
 
I was not born until just after the war, but I remember my parents talking about that day all through my childhood and the impact it (and of course the events following) had on them. I remember this day with reverence every year.
 
Falcon said:
Not then Chic. But a year later. They didn't accept 17 year olds. Then I joined the Army Air Corps for pilot training.

The AAC eventually became the USAF. Got my silver pilot wings in Altus, Okla. on 9/8/ 44.

George Goebel was my advanced instructor . (He still talks about it on the Johnny Carson show. (Or did.)
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Butterfly said:
I was not born until just after the war, but I remember my parents talking about that day all through my childhood and the impact it (and of course the events following) had on them. I remember this day with reverence every year.
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My parents talked about it a lot too. Dad enlisted the following year so he could go into the navy which he preferred instead of waiting to be drafted and perhaps end up in the army. Mom was terrified the whole time. She learned of the attack after lunch. She had gone to visit relatives for Sunday dinner when the news broke on the east coast about the attack.
 
Thank you for the reminder. Obviously it does not get quite as much attention over here, but as a 40 year vet with many US friends I should have remembered.
 
chic said:
My parents talked about it a lot too. Dad enlisted the following year so he could go into the navy which he preferred instead of waiting to be drafted and perhaps end up in the army. Mom was terrified the whole time. She learned of the attack after lunch. She had gone to visit relatives for Sunday dinner when the news broke on the east coast about the attack.
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My parents were in church that morning and the pastor announced the attack from the pulpit. Mom said there was a surreal (not her word, but it was definitely her description of what happened) feeling to the world after that and they spent the rest of the day quietly glued to the radio. They were living in San Diego at the time and mom was secretly afraid the "japs" would bomb there, too.
 
My dad was in the Navy during WWII. His ship was nearly sunk by a kamikaze. For his birthday, I gave him a framed picture of his ship. From then on, every time I visited him, he would pull me, and shown me the exact spot where the plane hit his ship. (USS Gregory (DD-802). This went on for year after year. I knew that exact spot on the ship had significance for him. While it was kept secret during WWII, "lost at sea" was an euphemism for eaten by shark. Maybe, that is why that spot meant so much to my dad. Strangely, the kamikaze attack was the only thing my dad ever said about his time in the Navy. Finally, after many times hearing about the plane crashing into that exact spot on the ship my dad added, "That's where my best friend was standing."
 

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