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12-07-2020, 08:20 AM #1
Pearl Harbor: 79 years ago today but everyday nowadays
I don't mean to be some sort of flag-waving idiot but rather someone who enjoys history and thinks it is absurd that this was a year shy of four scores ago.
There is also this: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/12/i...y-opinion.html
The death toll of the second-deadliest attack on american soil is surpassed each day by the newest single-day death toll from COVID and yet it seems we stand idly.swing your fucking sword.
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12-07-2020, 08:38 AM #2
In just 90 minutes Imperial Japan inflicted 3581 US casualties with 19 ships and 349 planes damaged or destroyed.
Japan also attacked the US at Guam, Wake, and the Philippines over the next few hours.
For the US, 420K dead and 672K wounded in the resulting war, meaning almost 1% of the US population were casualties.
Over 12% of the population served in the war and 7 of my relatives served.
I have my grandfather's 48 star flag. I put it out this morning.Originally Posted by blurred
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12-07-2020, 08:41 AM #3
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12-08-2020, 08:17 AM #4
My dad was 16 yrs old and both of his parents were dead already. He was so pissed off as were all of his friends. He tried to join instantly and was denied for two years (thankfully from my perspective!). Ended up in Okinawa after we had already taken the island (again, thankfully). Then we dropped the bombs and it was over. He never really saw any action which was a blessing. War sucks.
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12-08-2020, 09:27 AM #5
If you're into the history, check out the latest Hardcore History series about the Pacific theater (Supernova in the East). Like all HH it's super rad. Lots of stuff about the rise of imperial Japan, their occupation of China, and everything else that went on in the Pacific pre-Pearl Harbor that is never discussed here.
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12-08-2020, 09:57 AM #6
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12-08-2020, 10:13 AM #7
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12-08-2020, 10:26 AM #8Registered User
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My grandfather was dissappeared when Singapore was occupied, he was American and too white
Both my parents came of age in war zones, it was tough on themLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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12-08-2020, 12:22 PM #9
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12-08-2020, 12:43 PM #10yelgatgab
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Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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12-08-2020, 02:05 PM #11
I can recommend some awesome books on the Pacific War:
Freedom From Fear (more 1930-1945 worldwide)
At Dawn We Slept
Neptunes Inferno
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
The Fleet at Flood Tide
Miracle at Midway
Thunder Below
The Big E
Stillwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
With the Old Breed
Helmet for My Pillow
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Downfall: The End of Imperial Japanese Empire
A War to Be Won (great book, covers all fronts)
From the Japanese POV:
Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Shattered Sword (pretty technical at times, read after MIracle)
Japanese Destroyer Captain
Samurai!
Hiroshima
www.combinedfleet.comOriginally Posted by blurred
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12-08-2020, 02:20 PM #12
Trump failed to Pearl Harbor yesterday.
Too fucking busy I guess bloviating about stolen elections
Very sad.
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12-08-2020, 02:29 PM #13
My dad was a combat engineer on an attack transport ship in the Pacific. He got to go ashore first and clear beaches so the marines could safely come in. “No marine ever landed on a beach wasn’t a sailor there to shake his hand”
He was at Nagasaki two weeks after the bomb. I once asked him what it was like. He shuddered, said “you don’t want to know” and got a thousand yard stare.
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12-08-2020, 06:31 PM #14
Pearl Harbor: 79 years ago today but everyday nowadays
Thats complete horse shit. A-hole.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...ance-day-2020/
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12-08-2020, 08:52 PM #15
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12-08-2020, 08:59 PM #16
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12-08-2020, 09:40 PM #17
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12-09-2020, 12:12 AM #18
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12-09-2020, 12:18 AM #19
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12-09-2020, 08:18 AM #20
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12-07-2022, 07:44 PM #21
Pearl Harbor: 79 years ago today but everyday nowadays
BUMP for 81 years.
Props to the US Navy for naming our newest aircraft carrier after a brave sailor named Doris Miller. He was a cook onboard the battleship West Virginia. During the Pearl Harbor attack he manned an anti-aircraft gun and is credited with shooting down 4 japanese airplanes.
His battleship sunk during the attack, but he survived and was awarded the Navy Cross, just one step below the Medal of Honor.
He was reassigned to an aircraft carrier, but was Killed In Action along with 600+ shipmates during the Battle for Makin Island.
"Zee damn fat skis are ruining zee piste !" -Oscar Schevlin
"Hike up your skirt and grow a dick you fucking crybaby" -what Bunion said to Harry at the top of The Headwaters
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12-07-2022, 08:44 PM #22
Cool story about a 6' 200 lb 14 YO that got kicked out of the military twice and fought in 3 wars
https://wwiifoundation.org/lesson/gr...ry-goes-viral/
I regret not asking my dad more question about the war. Of course, like most, he didn't really talk much about it. Being in a tin can in the Battle of Leyte must have been life changing, (his ship fired torpedoes on the Japs 36 hours before the main battle started). So he wasn't in the slaughter fest, thankfully
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12-07-2022, 10:11 PM #23
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12-07-2022, 10:12 PM #24Registered User
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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12-07-2022, 10:19 PM #25
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