I have a friend who fought in both D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. When this despicable attack happened he was 18 and he volunteered for the Army because he wanted to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. That’s the kind of man he is. He’s now 96 and still pretty sharp and he remembers those events vividly. I thank God for the privilege of knowing him.

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb

2 жыл бұрын

Now 18 year olds know better not to volunteer to be cannon fodder.

@friendlyghost116

2 жыл бұрын

Their exact intentions worked then

@Cromwelldunbar

Жыл бұрын

@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb As The GM said: « All is relative… » Best never to forget it when building up your set of values…

@AustralianChristianFascists

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the attack was dispicable, it was done by the U.S. and British, not the Japanese.

@Cromwelldunbar

Жыл бұрын

@@AustralianChristianFascists When did they let you out? Don’t worry,they’ll take you back, so obvious!

Dad was on the California BB44 then lost the Yorktown CV5 at Midway 6 months later. He passed at 102 yrs old in 2016.Miss you dad.💔

@wheels-n-tires1846

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that. My father was aboard California also on Dec 7th.. He'd just joined, and only been aboard a few weeks. He transferred to the destroyer Phelps, (of "sank the Lexington" at Coral Sea fame) and was with Yorktown at Midway. Retired from the Navy in '64. Passed away in 2010 at 86.

@CrossOfBayonne

11 ай бұрын

My Uncle's father was too during the battle of Saipan

@TheOpendoormedia

10 ай бұрын

If he was on California, and the Yorktown, I guess the grim reaper was the only bird tough enough to take him on.. and he had to wait until he was 102. That is saying something.

@jonjorstad2061

9 ай бұрын

I have a great amount of respect and love for the men like your Dad who delivered an end to this terrible war… they were the fathers of the little boys I grew up with and none of these men would talk about the horrific things they saw HEROES !

@America-he5tz

9 ай бұрын

Another American set up for people to die, due to going after Japan's energy. History already has been repeated

My father was at Pearl Harbor that morning. He was a Marine! He went on to eventually land with the invasion and wage the fight at Guadalcanal.

The attack on pearl harbor prompted my dad & some of his friends to enlist for the army despite they were only 17. My dad ended up on Omaha beach the morning of june 6th 1944 with the 147th combat engineers, 6th engineers special brigade. I put a flag on his grave today. Thanks dad. Damn i miss that generation.

@KenHubbard-jz1vq

9 ай бұрын

THAT'S WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT ALL TO DO WITH THE QUALITY OF THE PEOPLE BACK THEN DIDN'T HAVE GREEN HAIR AND WOMAN WEREN'T COVERED IN TATTOO'S EVERYONE KNEW THERE THERE GENDER AND WHICH WASHROOM TO USE

@midnightrider7648

9 ай бұрын

@@KenHubbard-jz1vq: Exactly. That generation didn't complain or insult this country. They appreciated what they had & worked hard at everything they did.

@chatteyj

9 ай бұрын

Thankyou to your Dad and that generationn who fought to hep free europe from tyranny.

@theresaann7388

9 ай бұрын

They were a A generation with truth and amazing fascinating stories, That left your mouth wide open. Anybody that fights in a war are true heroes. I pray for them all.

@midnightrider7648

9 ай бұрын

@@theresaann7388: Extremely hard workers with integrity & principles. Amazing.

My father was on the U.S.S Solace and had a ring side seat. He spent the next three years at sea and survived. He died at age 93.

@PeriscopeFilm

5 жыл бұрын

God bless your father and all who served.

@MikeMike-jg2ue

5 жыл бұрын

jack60091 a great man

@joshmiller4337

5 жыл бұрын

Wow crazy. My grandpa is 92 and was getting ready to ship out when the abombs were dropped. He never saw combat. The army kept him in the states as an mp in new Orleans.

@FlexBeanbag

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshmiller4337 kzread.info/dron/-VY81cp3P3vWVxT5o-MTxA.html

@ebayerr

5 жыл бұрын

jack60091 : I was a shipyard electrician at Pearl Harbor in the mid 80's. And the same cranes on the docks that were used to help repair the ships then are still in use today and they have bronze plaques on them commemorating their service. Also,anytime a ship docks at Pearl from a foreign country,the Navy plays their National Anthem in the mornings before playing the U.S. National Anthem. All traffic,vehicle and pedestrian comes to a stop during the playing of the National Anthems. At least it did during the 80's. Not sure if that's still the case now. The National Anthem of Japan is "Kimi Ga Yo"

I was a Machinist Mate/ELT aboard the USS Bainbridge CGN-25based in San Diego. Pearl was our first stop outbound for every WestPac. Even then, in 1978 it was a sobering thing to sail into Pearl Harbor. To see it with your own eyes, as part of the fleet is indescribable. I still have an American flag flown from the USS Arizona as memorabilia. Thank you God for blessing this nation!

@tracker5849

4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE..my mothers husband's ship went down in pearl..he was never found.. NAVY 1941. they had been married about 2 months..NEVER FORGET...DEC 7...she was in NAVY also...my husband is a Viet Nam NAVY veteran..my father was ARMY in the 40s.

@dottiefrashure8457

4 жыл бұрын

You are in my heart, forever!

@MistressGlowWorm

4 жыл бұрын

My friend sailed into Pearl Harbor and he said there were beyond haunting things there. His crew, even though skeptical beforehand, believed thereafter that the spirits of those were ever present. He said “you would hear things, noises, that weren’t common to his ship.” Very eye opening and sobering.

@dottiefrashure8457

4 жыл бұрын

@@MistressGlowWorm Very interesting story. Athough I was still a ways off, I think of these courageous heroes, all the time. My Dad and Mom were Navy, WWll. My Dads parents had to sign for him, he was sixteen. They both survived. Tears come to my eyes when I think of all those heroes that did not.

@MistressGlowWorm

4 жыл бұрын

Dottie Frashure Truly sobering. What those poor guys faced the last moment of their lives makes my heart sink.

As an englishman and former soldier , i am eternally grateful the brave US service personel who helped us through two world wars . Thank you from the UK !!!!!

@thisoldboat7393

3 жыл бұрын

That was a different people and a different nation. America is GONE.

@jaygreider4753

3 жыл бұрын

I heard a funny saying that the British soldiers had about Americans when they first arrived there and asked why they didn't like them. They said, "Because they are overpaid, oversexed and over here." LOL

@Ironhold_Watch

3 жыл бұрын

It's sad Hitler had to consider most British citizens were armed and ready to fight if he invaded and now your government doesn't trust you enough to defend yourself. Good job with brexit, take your country back

@graycloud057

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh no worries.👍🏼👍🏼

@paulazemeckis7835

3 жыл бұрын

We Americans luv you!

My Dad...167th Infantry 31st Dixie Division Pacific Theatre. New Guinea to the Philippines My Hero!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 He died age 90 A USAF Veteran

@gregtidswell5087

4 жыл бұрын

Maryann America love from a grateful Australian, my father sailed along side the American fleet on the HMAS Hobart

@katherinegates1559

4 жыл бұрын

My Dad was sent to the Pacific in 1942-46 1st Marine Division. He is one of The Old Breeds. He passed away in 1996 and was 72. I miss him everyday😰 Never would he talk about the war. Such Brave Souls....All of them💕Semper-FI

@garrisonjones9340

4 жыл бұрын

What's your story have to do with this? Stay focused please!

@teresaponziani7983

4 жыл бұрын

God bless the greatest generation!!!

@karolinesmail489

4 жыл бұрын

@@teresaponziani7983 amen! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲✌️✌️✌️

From this Vet to all the Vets before me who served and to those who are and who have served after me ..to those who served and gave the ultimate price and didn't make it back to loved ones waiting for them....thank you 🇺🇸

@marvinswigert7636

Жыл бұрын

how touching

@bigsparky8888

9 ай бұрын

❤🕯👍🇺🇲💪🕊👈

The men who served during ww2 truly were men and women of the greatest generation. What the Sailors and the rest of the Navy did after the Japanese attack really was amazing.

@vincenzoberetta1085

3 жыл бұрын

Look for Savo Island....

@331SVTCobra

10 ай бұрын

@@vincenzoberetta1085 Battle off Samar

@scotttrainor5660

10 ай бұрын

🙏🏻

My dad was 17 when it happened. He volunteered immediately. He was in North africa, England ,France assigned under Patton the whole time. I had 4 uncles all in the Pacific. They all made it through the war but one of them had horrible what is now known as PTSD and died when I was a young boy from Alcoholism....

I saw the black smoke rising from only one point. It was just at 8 AM or a few minutes before, so it was the beginning of the attack. I was 4 or 5 miles east of Pearl Harbor and only 9 years old, but my long term memory is still intact.

When I was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center (staff, not a boot or student) I had the opportunity to work with a gentleman who had been stationed aboard USS Vestal, the repair ship that had just gotten underway from alongside the Arizona when the battleship blew up. He told me that the Vestal had a lot of her own men wounded and some killed, mostly by the concussion and flying debris from the Arizona's magazine explosion, he still felt that he was lucky to have survived with only temporary hearing loss.

@Hambone3773

4 жыл бұрын

I live just down the road from GLNB.

@wheels-n-tires1846

2 жыл бұрын

My father was aboard the California that day. Spent '42-44 on USS Phelps before transferring to subs. I have some great memories of Great Lakes as an ET "A" student there...👍

@JP-qc8ud

10 ай бұрын

I live in Lake Forest a few miles from Great Lakes Naval Base

My father was a new sailor, barely 17, aboard USS California that day. Later transferred to USS Phelps, reunited wirh his brother Paul, and they were present for all subsequent battles until '44 when he transferred to submarines, finally retiring in 1964.

It's a shame so many people these days seem to have forgotten what this generation sacrificed for our freedom.

@clauderebello2850

5 жыл бұрын

WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN.. and glad to see.. the two FACTIONS.. ARE GOOD FRIENDS..EVER SINCE....

@Cayden1988

4 жыл бұрын

I don't. Born in '88 and been fascinated and intruiged at what had happened before me. I won't say I know how it feels, because I don't. It was a different world and time back then. All I know is because I'm happily living in Australia is because of the actions of those back then.

@peterweissmann7794

4 жыл бұрын

@@Cayden1988 Good to hear mate. Great attitude.

@jamessutherland762

4 жыл бұрын

I will never forget and I wasn’t even born yet

@kittensausage5901

4 жыл бұрын

It’s because they have been raised to be victims. It’s disgusting.

My dad was 21 when Pearl Harbor was attacked and enlisted in the Navy that week. Served until 1945. When I bought a new Honda Accord in 84 it took me a while to figure out why he wouldn't even come near it. RIP, Dad.

@Mr.Robert1

9 ай бұрын

Made in Japan! That generation would not touch a German or Japanese anything ! Even if it was for free. My father was stationed in Germany, I was in Afghanistan.

My grandfather was navy ww2 and my grandmother was interned at a Japanese internment camp in los banos Philippines for four years.my grandmother and family along with other Americans,aussies, and kiwis where liberated at dawn by u.s. army paratroopers.my grandmother to her dying day called those paratroopers her angels from the sky.God bless and God speed always in honor and never forgotten,amen!

@mickeysmiths

5 ай бұрын

A very heartfelt story.. thank you

The Arizona did not take a bomb down the smokestack, an armor piercing bomb pierced the deck near the forward turret. The bomb either exploded in the forward magazine or the explosive flash passed through an open vent into the forward magazine dooming the ship. God bless all those who fought that day to defend our country...

@bigkraus1

10 ай бұрын

Propaganda film… By saying it went down the smokestack and happen to hit the magazine made the enemy hit more like luck, then a skilled fighter Plus, that part was probably still classified on what happened

@leechjim8023

3 ай бұрын

Back then they really thought it went down the stack. Later research proved otherwise.

My high school teacher for 3 years (i.e. b/w photography, Year Book) was present during the Pearl Harbor attack as an Army M.P. He never spoke of any details nor did I ask. I will never forget him telling me he sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge via a Naval Transport vessel (prior to Pearl Harbor ) and returned sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge some 6 years later. He was a very tough, Athletic, rigid and a quick tempered man to say the least whom lived to be 85 years of age. Rest in Peace Mr. Heninger, Sir! Reply

@marvinswigert7636

Жыл бұрын

well he should have slapped you to sleep

The bomb that hit the Arizona didn't go down the smoke stack. It was a modified 41cm AP shell outfitted with fins and turned into a bomb. It hit and penetrated into the forward magazine. The Navy had plans to strengthen the deck armor but never got around to it.

@paulford9120

4 жыл бұрын

I was about to write the same thing. Had it gone down the smokestack, it would have hit the boiler rooms, not the magazine.

@merrittashmore695

11 ай бұрын

True!!!

@patrickwheatley2693

7 ай бұрын

Actually, the Arizona HAD received deck upgrades in 1931, but the 2 inches of standard armor and 3 inches of "special" steel weren't enough to reinforce the main deck against a modified 14 inch AP shell. It was basically plunging fire and hit a magazine, creating what is known as a defragration event.

I have visited Pearl Harbor several times and the Pacific west cemetery were so many sailors and soldiers are buried in Hawaii, it is an awesome place to visit.

@detskalldaltas133

5 жыл бұрын

Never be there but in the tunnels in Saigon.US fell more bombs in Vietnam than ww1 and ww2 together. They change the name to Ho Chi Minh after that.

@MikeBrown-ex9nh

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome for those who can afford to go to Hawaii.

The horror... the ordeal that those young people witnessed, suffered, survived, and re-lived their remaining lives... I wasn't there, and I cannot imagine such a series of experiences. I just can't.

I think it was Yamimoto who said it best: I fear we've awaked a sleeping giant.

@jamesbenedict7206

5 жыл бұрын

Mayor of Nagasaki said What was that noise!

@gordonfleming3404

5 жыл бұрын

.... and filled him with a terrible resolve!

@bluemarshall6180

5 жыл бұрын

James Benedict Hirohito's Fart.

@laughtoohard9655

5 жыл бұрын

A pretty loud noise. Looking back it's sad it had to happen, but after Peat it was justified.

@Inquisitor-Beals

5 жыл бұрын

I heard He also opposed attacking the United States.

Today's news reporters would never cover an attack like this guy did . They would be trying to figure out what we did to make them mad at us and how we can appease them

@ralphsmull7049

5 жыл бұрын

That's because back then the reporters actually reported the actual news. None of this modern commentary opinionated garbage would have been tolerated. Those guys were REAL reporters. CNN would have been shut down and flushed down the toilet.

@Elementalism

4 жыл бұрын

We starved them of oil in the run up to pearl harbor. Japan needed dutch east indies to supplant their oil needs but needed our fleet out of the way. So the narrative today would be we didn't supply the Japanese genocide in China and thus deserved it.

@dennisgembutis6228

4 жыл бұрын

@@Elementalism yes always our fault according to the media

@laurencehutchinson8644

4 жыл бұрын

I remember CNN making a news video about the attack on Baghdad and Saddam. They said they were there but latter people found out they made it all in a desert in America. That's when I stopped watching CNN. They fooled me goid

@mikerath4377

4 жыл бұрын

And it looks like our former enemies found a home in the democrat party

Tremendous effort to raise, repair and refit those ships. Wish there was a detailed movie of all of that work.

@rutabagasteu

5 жыл бұрын

There are documentaries made back then that show divers, welders, and ship yard workers doing rebuilds.

@CavZippo

5 жыл бұрын

Critical Past's KZread page has many of the salvage and repair videos.

@johnkeviljr9625

5 жыл бұрын

Ah Yes - Critical Past. Thank You!!!

@craftpaint1644

4 жыл бұрын

There's a book also called Descent Into Darkness by Edward Raymer USN(Ret)

@JKSSubstandard

3 жыл бұрын

Drachinfel also has a 3 part series detailing the salvage efforts.

Boy the Japanese really misinterpreted what the reaction would be to this.

@spikespa5208

4 жыл бұрын

One of the three really big stupid decisions of WWII. Along with Hitler attacking the USSR and then unilaterally declaring war on the US.

@derrickblackwood9828

4 жыл бұрын

USA was a paper tiger in their view. A decadent and soft culture.

@donotneed2250

4 жыл бұрын

And wrong they were. They figured since we were not like they were we were weak. They figured it out...

@tonytafoya6217

4 жыл бұрын

Not " misinterpreted " That's a wrong word usage. The word you should've used is Underestimated.

@buzzlightyear2490

4 жыл бұрын

Wait for iran, iran are keen as, yes iran have heavy weapons, but i truly hope to god it dosent go that direction, lots of services people will be killed at the start, but iran will be wipe off the map. Its no joke, it put pearl harbor a speck in space.

That was a huge undertaking by the US to salvage and repair those ships and have them battle ready, thousands of miles from the US mainland. That capability in itself would’ve been a huge psychological blow to the Japanese, knowing that the US were so resilient and determined to fight.. You have to respect that. 👍

@rsmith02

10 ай бұрын

Why do you think that would be surprising? The point of the attack was to buy time.

This breaks My Heart, God Bless Our Men and Women of The US Navy.

My own father was in the ship-building industry working for Higgins shipyards in New Orleans so he never served overseas. He had a "preferred occupation." But my father-in-law was with the U.S. Army at Normandy on D-Day. He was in the 3rd wave and survived the campaign. He didn't see Pearl Harbor but he DID see some concentration camps; helped liberate a couple. A lot of people did a lot of things back then that some of these modern pantywaist types would never even consider. In this modern politically correct world, I would probably get in trouble if something like this happened again, because the first time some appeasement type opened his or her mouth, I would slap that person so hard they would lose teeth.

@Firedog-ny3cq

10 ай бұрын

Wow! Tough guy!

@brandongardner9829

9 ай бұрын

Well said.

@HooDatDonDar

9 ай бұрын

You would have got in trouble then. We debate and vote here - and then act. It’s not about controlling the streets with brownshirts. I would have been pro-ally and pro-war, like you. Would you have gone after isolationists who did not see it our way, like Charles Lindbergh? Anyway, there was no debate after Pearl Harbor, they mostly just all joined the war effort. For the camps, lots of things happen in war. You need to keep a lid on summary revenge shootings and the rest of it not needed for victory. That’s so you can win without turning into the thing you fight. It is difficult, and some modern critics don’t know that. As Patton said after getting full information about Biscari, “ try the bastards”.

My dad was about 16 and he was one of the many who joined the Navy right after Pearl Harbor. Many years later he almost got in trouble for lying about his age.

@1racemate

4 жыл бұрын

my step dad too

@marvinswigert7636

Жыл бұрын

16 no navy son liar

I worked in a condo complex where an older woman lived,Her father was career Army and stationed at pearl.She was 12 at the time of the attack and the stories she told aside from the attack were interesting, like all the barbed wire on Waikiki , and the kids chasing sea birds that were too fat to fly because of eating all the dead fish from a destroyer dumping depth charges days after the attack off the beach.

@marvinswigert7636

Жыл бұрын

my father worked in a shipyard picking up piecesevery response here is bullshit just hope they love themselves cuz most dont

@TheOpendoormedia

10 ай бұрын

If I remember, (going off memory cause to lazy to look it up) the Ward saw a conning tower of a mini sub before the attack. They hit the tower with a shot and dumped some charges in the area. That sub was found a few years ago with a hole in the tower.

My dad served on the USS Audrain. And PT boat 124. I’m so proud of him

“DESCENT INTO DARKNESS” is a first person account of the experiences of navy salvage divers into the bowels of the ARIZONA and OKLAHOMA. The divers found many dead crewmen... also unexploded Japanese bombs that had penetrated into the ships but failed to explode. They also stole wristwatches, rings and other valuables. It’s all documented in the book. The divers got into the small arms lockers and stole a number of 1911/A1 .45 pistols from the ARIZONA. A diver sold one of the pistols and when the brass learned of it, they confined all salvage workers to their barracks ... they placed barrels in the courtyard and gave the sailors until morning to deposit their “treasures” in the barrels. The book reports the barrels were overflowing with personal effects and valuables removed from the ships. Not something we think American sailors would do.

@jimguelde4068

5 жыл бұрын

Clessandra Pippenschnott - Well, I wasn’t there, and you weren’t there, but the author was there.

@josephcavaliere9772

5 жыл бұрын

The USS Arizona was the most tragic ship hit but so was the USS Utah and it is still there sunken in the harbor. Hardly ever mentioned.

@craftpaint1644

4 жыл бұрын

They were only paid like 20 bucks a month. What would you do? Turn it in and then they would lose track of it.

@tommytucker7091

4 жыл бұрын

@@Clessandra sounds very American to me. Remember....

@tommytucker7091

4 жыл бұрын

Every combat veteran I ever talked to, talks about taking something from the battlefield. Every one, regardless of who they fought for. It's a visceral thing

Its amazing how a nation can rebuild so fast.. Today it takes forever just to build Light Rail.

@tackyman2011

4 жыл бұрын

Any chance you are in Seattle?

@totallyfrozen

4 жыл бұрын

“Today”? LOL! You’re comparing America’s wartime production with a peacetime public transit system. Come back to reality.

Everyone made huge sacrifices all around then. From helping the war effort to buying war bonds to rations of important material. Women made the bombs and bullets while the men used them. Everyone pitched in. This generation, my generation is incensed over the most trivial things.

@rsmith02

10 ай бұрын

Maybe those are the battles of our generation, the battle for equality, decency, economic fairness, a stable climate.

@HooDatDonDar

9 ай бұрын

@@rsmith02 no, I wouldn’t think so. Every generation has its unworkable cure-all nostrums. Also, much of modern life could be argued as a move away from decency. But to be fair, people got incensed then too - just about some different things.

It was rather ironic to note the statement by a Japanese factory worker who, upon hearing Togo's announcement of the Pearl Harbor attack, wondered at the wisdom of Japan attacking a nation with double its population and six times its industrial capacity. Other than Yamamoto, the leadership of the Axis powers had never viewed the nations they were attacking as they led their populations like lemmings off a cliff.

INCREDIBLE!!! Almost every battleship was repaired and refurbished. I had no idea!!!

@JKSSubstandard

3 жыл бұрын

The only active ship that was a total loss was Arizona because her magazines had detonated and theres no coming back from that. Utah had been a training ship for over a decade. And Oklahoma was the oldest active battleship and also the most heavily damaged. She was refloated but determined to be not worth the money considering she would struggle to keep up with modern task forces

It is kinda cool how they refloated those ships to attack other ships and Japan when Japanese pilots thought they sunk them and didnt have to worry about them anymore.

@rogercabe6175

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Cuff took 2-3years to get west virginia back to the fleet ...

@insulman100

4 жыл бұрын

@@rogercabe6175 the West Virginia was back in service Sep. 44 due to other priorities mainly a lack of dry dock space on the west coast but when she returned her radar and fire control systems were the most advanced in the fleet due to her return late in 1944

@thekehoeshow..

4 жыл бұрын

I too had no idea that they did that. I guess it worked out that they were in a harbor versus out in the deep open ocean.

@muskokamike127

4 жыл бұрын

@@thekehoeshow.. Yeah exactly. I didn't realize they were able to save so many, I thought most battleships were a total loss. It's pretty amazing when you think about it using the technology they had back then. I can't confirm this but one way they used to plug the holes were large mats made of natural fibres from the outside. The fibres would swell in the water and seal the holes well enough that the pumps could handle the seepage. Once they removed enough water so the hull could float, they'd tow it to drydock and weld in new plates.

@jonnyitguy

4 жыл бұрын

jessie k if they were in the deep open ocean the Japanese wouldn’t even have attempted this.

I once had a customer...around 1994-95...He was in his mid 80s...still tough as nails...A marine on the arizona.Always wore his pearl harbor cap.He was one of 22 men that survived that afternoon by diving under the water to swim out of burning oil slicks that surrounded his friends...needless to say he was 1 of 2 men that survived that afternoon to go onto survive Guadal Canal..He passed on in early 1998 but this hero always stays in my heart and the honor of this young seargeant will always be first thought.

@marvinswigert7636

Жыл бұрын

vile you are and allways willbe unless you change your ways

Yamamoto was quoted, invading US mainland would be impossible because there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. Its uncertain if that is a factual quote or not. But it is very true.

@Kastev30

2 жыл бұрын

That was also generally the thought behind America's hesitation on committing tens to hundreds of thousands of American lives in a potential invasion of the Japanese mainland. The entire populace of Japan had been trained to resist foreign invaders and even schoolchildren were taught how to use and operate firearms towards the end. We would have had to pay many lives for every mile we would have had to fight through. In the end, the atom bombs saved many, many more lives than if America had had to resort to invasion, both American and Japanese ones. People always try and condemn America for having to use the atom bombs but fail to realize just what an invasion of Japan would look like and just how many more civilians would have been killed. Another 1-2 years of bombing would have caused more death and destruction across the entirety of Japan than what was lost in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I had 2 late friends and a late great uncle who were at Pearl Harbor in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. 1 friend in the Marines, 1 on an Army ammunition ship, and my great uncle was a civilian worker

@robertholmberg6485

3 жыл бұрын

All 4 survived. My great uncle was blown into the harbor and xwam to shore then actually walked on shore to help with a shot-up leg

My grandfather was in the motorpool in the Pacific and my grandmother was a rose the riveter n Oregon, I think they meet there. They called my grandfather 'The Terror of the Highways', for his propensity for wrecking or catching fire 2 army trucks. My grandmother repaired ships, everything from subs to aircraft carriers.

@skiprussell2606

4 жыл бұрын

And what have you done?

That movie tone cameraman looks like he could be R. Lee Ermey's father!!!!

✌️🇺🇸 All of Our WWII Veterans ....Will Never Be Forgotten. God Bless....Each and Everyone Of Them...Forever.🇺🇸💞 God Bless Our America....🇺🇸

@EMScott-le7vu

9 ай бұрын

Sorry to say, but the gender bender ilk could care less.

I have never seen this whole film it's very interesting. I especially liked the battleship in dry dock. I know there must be some interesting film/photos of the damage stored in some archives somewhere. Thanks for the post.

@jerrynewberry2823

5 жыл бұрын

Each ship had it's own photographer. I'm sure there is more. Smithsonian? Contact and ask. That's why we pay them.

@ewhartiii

3 жыл бұрын

Drachinifel has a 3 part series on the salvage after Pearl Harbor. He has a lot of photos of the damage, as well as an in depth description of the work done. His channel is kzread.info/dron/4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw.html

Great film! Love the clarity and detail. The guy at the end said it all. My dad earned his Purple Heart in Italy. What an amazing time.

@vstar7196

5 ай бұрын

WOW! You call a war where millions of people died and amazing time. You’re totally screwed up in the head.

This is NOT propaganda. This is authentic journalism. The film shows actual, unedited events. The narrator does not attempt to persuade or inflience but rather allows the film footage to speak for itself, which leaves the viewer free to evaluate the meaning for him- or herself. God bless America and all those sailors who lost their lives on December 7, 1941.

@jksilta9335

10 ай бұрын

If you don't hear the propaganda in this propaganda video, then you probably have myocarditis right now...

@Firedog-ny3cq

10 ай бұрын

The narrator was a racist jackass. Clean out your ears.

My ex wife's grand father was on the Arizona, lester Hamilton

I like the way they told it like it was back then. Nowdays he’d be called a racist and his career would be over...

@pedemeyer

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Barnett So how was it? What part of the “truth” did we loose and can no longer say?

@jurginvon

4 жыл бұрын

@@pedemeyer "Truth" is a relative concept in the daily conspiracy of modern 'Merica. We rather report Opinions than facts. There are certainly more pundants, than factual reporters. When this news was recorded of Pearl Harbor, the facts were withheld for fear of informing the Enemy. Now the reported news is tailored to the market of Conservative or Liberal label. So called "News" is now an echo chamber of their perspective alliance. I would definitely call that a loss. To quote the great Water Cronkite, "And that's the way it is."

@TowGunner

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Barnett Absolutely! Today, using vernacular deemed unsuitable by the PC Police is a capital crime.

@6milesup

3 жыл бұрын

@@TowGunner Cry me a river

@Compromised-yk9mc

3 жыл бұрын

@@6milesup Get lost commie boy.

My Dad was already in the Marines when Pearl Harbor was attacked he replied definately not getting out of the Corp today that is for sure God All of Those who seved and God Bless America 🇺🇲

I spent the better part of 20 years (80-99), with a couple of breaks here and there, being a Pearl sailor. Having the opportunity to be there had a big impact on me. Standing the rev watch on the quarterdeck, with the Arizona Memorial in sight and only a couple of hundred yards away I would think a lot about what it must have been like that morning. Especially when dawn was breaking and everything was quiet and peaceful. I was stationed over on Ford Island also for a few tours at a training command. Bldg. 39 didn't exist when the attack occurred, it was a much later addition; but right off the back of the building is the seaplane ramp where you see all the seaplanes destroyed. It was a devastating attack to be sure but it could have been much worse. The carriers weren't in port and for some reason the attack overlooked the drydocks and all the fuel reserves. Big, big mistake right there. Imagine how much time would have been lost getting back into the fight had the Japanese destroyed the dry docks. Good video. Thanks.

No kneeling on the ground during the anthem in those days and no worry about the Betsy Ross flag

@geoffbruce1478

4 жыл бұрын

The "kneeling on the ground during the anthem" started as a protest against police brutality and is in no way disrespectful to the flag.

@petekarstaedt8258

4 жыл бұрын

@@geoffbruce1478 yes it is the Anthem has nothing to do with police brutality. Just some spoiled jackass trying to make a name for himself.

@ericunderwood1482

4 жыл бұрын

@@geoffbruce1478 WHAT......Do you really think that POLICE brutality didn't happen Back in the Day! Better wake up pal! I say every time a Officer in Uniform breaks the Law ....It is He Himself that desecrated the Flag!

@geoffbruce1478

4 жыл бұрын

@@ericunderwood1482 It's irrelevant WHEN the brutality happened. The fact that it happens to ANYONE is a violation of an individual's Constitutional rights.

@ericunderwood1482

4 жыл бұрын

@@geoffbruce1478 Totally Agee!

It was our dads, grandfathers, uncles, mothers, grandmothers who fought, served, worked through that war to defeat enemies who would be still dominating us today if Japan or Germany had won. Those Americans were the ones who knew from hard experience and who taught us how and why America was great. And it was something understood by most for at least a couple decades after the war ended. Then came the post-boomer waves born several decades afterwards. From them through successive generations there has been a growing fraction with each of Americans who are ignorant, self-indulgent, selfish, intolerant, weak, and foolish who think they actually want many of the very things those war era Americans fought to defeat. This increasingly pussified fraction of Americans are truly pathetic fools and if not blocked would willingly try to destroy the US. Fortunately, there's still a vast number on Americans who learned how and why America is great and will still fight and work just like their dads and others did.

@blindstraight4026

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Bodder Roosevelt was a traitor and shoulda been hung in the streets with the rest of the government

@psalm23sheepdog

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Bodder Much like 9/11. The more I understand the deep state operatives, the more I question some of history.

@u2mister17

4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Bodder My Dad joined the Navy in '33 and was one of the first crew of the USS Minneapolis when the navy commissioned her in '34. He was on Guam working on building the Navy base there when the FDR 'died' news was announced over the PA. He told me he exclaimed "GOOD" over every other blubbering soul of the moment. He hated FDR for "NOT MAKING THE PHONE CALL."

@u2mister17

4 жыл бұрын

The way my Dad explained it was FDR made that decision because of a divided US wanting to stay out of the war. FDR thought Pearl Harbor attack would bring America together in the fight. It Did, but the cost was too high.

@barrylast8655

4 жыл бұрын

The same thing is happening in Canada. Those people are coming up here from the US joining the indoctrinated entitled integrates we have here.

My dad was in the European campaign WW 2 and he told me " Never Forget Pearl Harbor "

@tonymontana9799

5 жыл бұрын

It was a false flag to get the American people to back the war effort that why America wasn't involved until 1942

@tonymontana9799

4 жыл бұрын

@oh no ahhh thanks for clearing that up for me...I'm sure your right 👍

When I was in graduate school back in the 1970s, the history department of the university I attended had an oral history project to record interviews with Pearl Harbor survivors. I worked in that program as an interview transcriber and handled some really informative and even fascinating conversations. We also had an even bigger project to get personal experiences from US military prisoners of the Japanese. For anyone interested, the records are available through the library at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX.

The only significant error I heard in the video, was the Arizona bomb hit did not go down her smoke stack. The battleships West Virginia and California ended up sailing back to the west coast of the U.S., for the completion of repairs.

At the time of the war my dad was out in the ocean in the USS Bobolink. A reconnaissant ship used for blocking and locating bombs in the ocean. That is a dangerous job. And he was a photographer to the Navy. And of course he has worked with others in photography. Including the war movies of Pearl Harbor.

When we lived in Ewa Beach(just outside Pearl) in the late 50's, some of the trees still had bullet holes in the trunks.

DD-373 is the destroyer USS Shaw. Her bow was blown off when her forward magazine exploded. She was fitted with a false bow and made it to the West Coast, where she was fully repaired and back into action. The other two destroyers was the Cassin and Downs. Both docked with the battleship USS Pennsylvania at Drydock #1. At the time the drydock was drained for the ships to be refitted. Japanese bombs hit all three ships, and fires broke out on the Cassin and Downs that spread to the Pennsylvania. In a effort to contain the fire the dock was flooded. By then the ammunition magazines on the destroyers went off and both destroyers were sunk. Cassin and Downes were raises and taken back to the West Coast. All of their machinery was stripped. Instead of being given to other ships, that machinery went to brand new hulls. Thus the Cassin and Downes were reborn. By the end of the war, Cassin recieved six battle stars for participation in as many campaigns. Downes recieved four. Shaw earned eleven. The footage of the Arizona explosion is reversed in this video. It was taken by an Army doctor, Eric Haakenson, from the deck of the hospital ship, USS Solace. That doctor recorded a lot more than just the Arizona's death. He even recorded formations of high-level Japanese bombers approaching the battleships as AA shells burst around them. The USS Oglala was so old that a bird's nest was found in one of her sticks. At the time of the attack she was moored outboard of the cruiser USS Helena. A torpedo, aimed at the pair, passed under the Oglala and struck the cruiser, but the concussion of the blast ruptured Oglala's hull causing her to capsize. She was raised, repaired, and served at the end of the war earning two battle stars. Surprisingly, none of the crew were killed at Pearl Harbor. The film states the USS Arizona sank because a bomb went down its smoke stack. This is a long standing story that's not true. Perhaps the limited amount of information and salvage efforts, and the footage taken by Haakenson gave the impression of a bomb going down the stack. It was later shown that a bomb pierced the deck starboard of the #2 turret. It exploded in one of the powder magazines setting off a daisy chain reaction that destroyed the forward third of the ship. Most of those men were incinerated, including the ship's skipper, Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh, and Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, commander of Battleship Division One, of which the Arizona served as flagship. Both men were last seen in the bridge directing the battle. When salvage crews came on board later, all that were found of the men were their Annapolis class rings, melted and fused into the ship's superstructure. Salvage crews also found that the Arizona's topside 3" anti-aircraft guns were trained up at the sky and the deck strewn with spent shell casings, meaning she went down fighting.

I often wonder would today's generation be able to do the same ?

@xcalibr33

4 жыл бұрын

Graham Simon ..... nope 👎

@tracker5849

4 жыл бұрын

No!

@steveadams5190

4 жыл бұрын

OH, HELL NO!!!!!

@Cayden1988

4 жыл бұрын

World's full of pussy ass whinging butt hurt individuals. Say one word and you tread on their sensitivities. It's a joke.

@jbratt

4 жыл бұрын

Not in as high of percentage as back in the day, but there are good kids still around. I just hope when they are needed there will be enough.

I've been following you guys for years. Keep up the good work. I also believe keeping these films alive is important.

A friend of my fathers was at Pearl Harbor and was a salvage diver. He dove on the West Virginia, California and Arizona bringing up bodies. Hundreds of them. My dad wan into him six months or so later and he was on his way to becoming full blown alcoholic as a result of that detail. Wound up being put into the hospital and died less than a year later.

@detskalldaltas133

5 жыл бұрын

What a hero! Same destiny happend to a diver in Korea when a Ferry sink,full of schoolchildren.

"Far Eastern double crossers" Try being that honest today.

@wtfodessa

2 жыл бұрын

8:02 try this !!

@Firedog-ny3cq

10 ай бұрын

Simple. It doesn't apply today. Stop living in the past and wake the f*ck up.

My Grandfather was Carpenters mate 3rd class on USS Hyperion. The ship earned 3 navy crosses for shooting down Japanese planes leaving Pearl Harbor after attack.. Not bad for a supply ship...

My neighbors brother was to be retired from marines on the 8th of December. At pearl harbor, he finally got out in 1953.

Visited the USS Midway a while back. Had the privilege of speaking to a survivor of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. He was so ,eloquent, so patient, such a wonderful gentleman. My wife and I thanked him for his service.

@marvinswigert7636

Жыл бұрын

his srvice was to totally warp your mindand you thank him these responses are not realmind warp and propagabda brought to you bythe great uber rich controller of this place .and they are all rtelated

The raising of the battleships Nevada, West Virginia, California--updated!, to be an even more deadly opponent to the Japanese --is so stirring. It was a can-do generation who fought and won that war. Too many of today's young Americans think the erf is dying.

@Firedog-ny3cq

10 ай бұрын

The "erf"?

@agwbcfjc2

10 ай бұрын

@@Firedog-ny3cq That's the popular spelling for a comical mispronunciation of the word "earth". The current generations of "young" people (some are not so young) do not have a "can do" mentality, because the H-12 system taught them worthless lies like wimmin r bictims and the earth (erf) is dying.

Interesting to see footage of the recovery operations. Thanks for posting.

Respect to our American cousins from the UK.

Is it any Wonder the Americans had no mercy for the Japanese after this.

@Hambone3773

4 жыл бұрын

Not particularly difficult to understand.

@BIGWOOD3160

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention how they treated POW'S the little bastards were mercaless

@pranteranaud3617

4 жыл бұрын

@@NazTheGreat the Japanese were absolutely brutal to civilians during WW2. Too bad for their civilians. Sounds like you're bitter and upset because they didn't get the chance to kill American civilians. Any Japanese civilian deaths is solely the fault and responsibility of the Japanese empire at that time. Japan should have thought of those consequences before they attacked the Americans.

@oumajgad6805

4 жыл бұрын

@@pranteranaud3617 Curtis LeMay said himself that he's happy that America won the war, because otherwise he would be trialed as a war criminal. They knew what they were doing, but it had to be done. It was total war on both sides.

@iqbalahmed7308

4 жыл бұрын

It s justified but wht abt afghanistan and iraq etc

My dad was aboard the light cruiser USS Raleigh CL-7 the morning of December 7, 1941. Raleigh was moored on the northwest side of Ford Island. In the opening minutes of the attack, Raleigh was struck by an aerial torpedo. An hour later she was hit by an armor piercing bomb that narrowly missed an ammunition magazine before passing through the ship and exploding on the harbor floor. Raleigh was repaired in the months following and returned to service for the duration of WW2.

Interesting video. Correction though, the reason for the immense explosion seen today in all the footage that doomed the Arizona did NOT come from a bomb going down the stack of the ship. The detonation that is seen was the result of a 1000 lb bomb hitting the deck, just forward of the #2 main gun turret which in turn drove down into the ships main gunpowder storage room thus igniting it. This detonation was the result of the majority of all the casualties on the Arizona.

@rutabagasteu

5 жыл бұрын

@Ronald Hinton Correct. It took digitizing of the film and looking at it one frame at a time. American Heros Channel showed a documentary on how researchers found this out.

@CavZippo

5 жыл бұрын

This theory was never the Navy's official finding. Witnesses from the attack and the survey and salvage crews saw the hull blown out forward of the turrets, and the official BDA report was an AP bomb into the magazine.

@andylagomarsino1284

5 жыл бұрын

@@rutabagasteu l

I’m just speechless how great this generation was ! They all pulled together and saved this country from brutal attack and others in factory’s rebuilding our military and together defeated two powerful countries ! What a generation! I am honors that several family members took part in our war efforts in ww2 !

For the lowdown on the attack see Gordon Prange, et al., "At Dawn We Slept" and "Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History."

My Dad went from a farm in Sauk Centre mn to a ship in a war at 17. I couldn't even imagine what those men saw and did! Thank you soldiers who fought and paid the ultimate price for your country!

An amazing video. While historically most footage of the time was about the attack it's nice to see the recovery effort.

will never b a time again in American history where America will come as one and fight as one.

@Comissar_Carolus

4 жыл бұрын

That was the point of pissing off the japanese, Roosevelt wanted to go to war against the nazis but the people didn't care for the european conflict so he had to personnaly involved the american citizen. The Japenese were allied to the germans, and with officers wanting to build an empire by war around the japan emperor he knew that it wouldn't be hard to provoke them with economic mesures. I don't think it was a surprised attack for Roosevelt, he wanted them to attack, what's a few soldiers live, they're meant to die anyway for a politician...

@michaellittlejohn8723

4 жыл бұрын

@@Comissar_Carolus you are CORRECT !!!! to think we (the USA ) did NOT know exactly were the Japanese Fleet was is INSANE !!!! pre planned attack to get the American citizens to want to FIGHT !!! in another USELESS WAR !

@Comissar_Carolus

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaellittlejohn8723 Not to mention that the most important target for the Japenese weren't there : the aircraft carriers left just before the attack. All the ships that were lost or damage were old ships that needed refitting anyway.

@michaellittlejohn8723

4 жыл бұрын

@@Comissar_Carolus it is amazing to me that people will NOT ask good questions about this event, things just do NOT add up !

@joefer8421

4 жыл бұрын

Specially when they have mercenaries and other contries to make their dirt work! Plus, theirs missiles and drones do the work too. Imagine america lose 50millions of peolpe in a war... it would never go to war again!

And today just look at all the Japanese cars being driven.

@midnightrunner684

3 жыл бұрын

Trump Rides in a Caddillac M.A.G A 2020

@muttley8818

3 жыл бұрын

@@midnightrunner684 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂. Sorry. Can’t help laughing. I’m reading this in 2021. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@63bplumb

2 жыл бұрын

I drive 1966 Cadillacs that are in perfect condition! NO foreign garbage for ME!

@Firedog-ny3cq

10 ай бұрын

Everything you buy at Walmart and from Amazon is made in China. They are now considered to be our future enemies. Will you stop shopping with them? Didn't think so. When American cars are made better and get better gas mileage, people will buy them. Simple economics.

Two kids from my hometown of Staten Island, New York lost their lives that day. Ira Duane Hudson was aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia was never found, and Vincent Kechner was killed at Hickam Field. We just honored Vincent with a street sign in his name on the block where he grew up, and Ira's street sign renaming will be in a few months.

The answer to the question of why Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is why.

@shamrock1961

5 жыл бұрын

Why not Tokyo too?

@aaroncabatingan5238

5 жыл бұрын

@@shamrock1961 Tokyo have been already burnt down in Operation Meetinghouse plus American officers didn't want beautiful and culturally important cities to be completely destroyed

@fredhebert3648

5 жыл бұрын

That's not the only reason for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The main reason is the alternative, an invasion of the Japanese main island, would have been too costly in terms of human lives on both sides.

@xbubblehead

5 жыл бұрын

No it isn't. The atom bombs were dropped to avoid the heavy casualties that would have resulted had we invaded the Japanese homeland.

@usedcarsokinawa

5 жыл бұрын

The Doolittle Raids were in retaliation. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were to force surrender and save lives that would have occurred in a full out invasion, and also they served political uses of the nuclear bombs.

Remarkable rare footage

I wonder how many videos this guys actually narrated. Been hearing it all my life lol.

my dad god rest him said he was on island of new gin if the had not dropped the atomic bombs that they would be fighting women & children hand to hand combat for every inch of japan

@vanlendl1

4 жыл бұрын

I doubt, that there was a real need to invade Japan. Bombing civilians areas is a war crime. But I know of course, what Japan did in China.

@charlesfitzgerald9461

4 жыл бұрын

You a right my father was military intelligence he told me that they had plans of invasion of Japan mainland with over 1 million US Army, Marines an there would be over 4 million dead Japanese men weman .

I knew of a late friend who was in the Army Air Force at Hickham Field during the attack. R.I.P. God bless his soul. 🇺🇸🙏

It's odd that even back then they are already misquoting Roosevelt. Roosevelt made it a point to say "a date that will live in infamy" not a "day". He wanted people to specifically remember the "date".

@wheels-n-tires1846

2 жыл бұрын

Funny, I just noticed that repeatedly today... Dec 7th, 2021.

1:55 No bomb went down the smokestack. This myth has been perpetuated since the war. It was an armor piercing bomb that penetrated to the forward magazines and set them off.

@JKSSubstandard

3 жыл бұрын

The ships were being reloaded with new shells at the time. Its entirely possible Arizonas magazines were not sealed because of this

Great Video, Thanks for Sharing !

I learnt alot today. Cool video. Thanks

That was fantastic, thanks.

Incredible footage documenting the attack at Pearl Harbor.

Superb and excellent document! Well done!

Released a year after the attack, and the Japanese had already lost badly at Midway and Guadalcanal. Was at Pearl 3 months ago, amazing to still see the bullet holes in the hanger.

The Japanese could have come back for another attack but they didn't. If they had, they could have destroyed the oil tanks, the submarines and done so much damage, they could have come to the west coast and attacked. So glad the Enterprise was out at sea that morning.

@PeriscopeFilm

7 жыл бұрын

The Japanese made many mistakes that day. #1, they mis-timed their attack and so none of the aircraft carriers were caught at Pearl, a major blunder. #2, with the exception of Arizona and Utah, the damaged battleships were able to be salvaged (as the film shows). A secondary attack could have made that impossible. #3, as you point out major areas of infrastructure were left virtually untouched including the tank farms and the submarine base. In the same time period Japan launched attacks on U.S. holdings in the Philippines and elsewhere, which limited the offensive aimed at Hawaii. One has to wonder what would have happened had the Japanese landed troops on Hawaii on December 7th...could they have taken the island? If so the struggle in the Pacific might have been much more difficult.

@TheSwanlake2009

7 жыл бұрын

Japan has no hope for invasion, but only to delay the inevitable. America is far too mighty to destroy.

@douglaslally156

7 жыл бұрын

There are those who do believe Japanese troops would have taken Oahu. The U.S. commanders were convinced it was coming in the days following the attack. I believe the Japanese military leaders did discuss this as a possibility but the idea was scrapped for many sound reasons. 1) They did not have the landing craft or ships to pull it off 2.) They could not be re-supplied indefinitely 3.) They did not consider PH a military threat after the attack 4.) There were never enough troops to keep it secured.

@TheJer1963

6 жыл бұрын

They also had no clue where the aircraft carriers were either.

@MrChickennugget360

6 жыл бұрын

They would have had to wait a long time to catch the US carriers in Pearl. 4 were in the Atlantic 3 in the Pacific- USS Saratoga was heading to San Francisco to get re-fitting that could last months. Enterprise was on her way back to Pearl having delivered aircraft to the Wake Island garrison and was less than 100 miles from the Japanese Task Force- had they sent out scout planes they easily could have sunk her. Lexington was heading for Midway with Marine Fighters to reinforce the garrison there

This attack was actually finalised in 1940 when Yamamoto convinced the Japanese military that this would win a quick war with a demoralized United States. The Pacific war with the US came about because of the American presence in the Philippines, which was in the center of the planned Japanese empire. The only way war would have been prevented was for the United States Congress to cede the Philippines to Japan. It had nothing to do with plots by Roosevelt or anyone else. Most of these replies are based on a book filled with enough horse shit to fill up Texas. Unfortunately there are enough idiots to actually buy this nonsense.

@petemangum4542

7 жыл бұрын

Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War "came about" as a direct result of the criminal machinations of FDR who WANTED a war with Japan for his own PERSONAL reasons. He is responsible for Pear Harbor, and he is responsible for launching us into a World War which was completely unnecessary. Neither Germany or Japan had harmed or threatened ANY US interest. THAT is the fact of the matter, and no amount of silly flag-waving will change that.

@petemangum4542

7 жыл бұрын

"So it was ok for Japan to go into China.?"To attack Britain, French, Holland, etc, colonies? How about the Korea's, or Vietnam, Laos, etc.? That's not our call! What other nations do to/with other nations is none of our business, especially if our national interests and safety are not threatened. This is exactly what the 'Founders' warned us not to do - to get into "entangling alliances." Is it OK for me to come barge into your house and beat you up because I don't like how you treat your neighbor? "Why was Germany trying to get Mexico, Central and South American countries in 1939 and 1940 to enter into the war against the US," That is pure speculation. There is no factual basis for that claim. Germany declared war on the US only AFTER the US made it clear it was going to - at the very least - aid Britain and other nations against Germany. That act alone condemned the US to be considered an 'enemy belligerent,' so OF COURSE Germany declared war on the US. Had the US followed Lindberg's non-interventionist calling, Germany would have had no need or desire to consider the US a threat. :"Why was Germany sinking them in 1940? You can argue all you want that FDR was "egging them on", but even if he was, it was not illegal to do so. " Where on earth did you learn your (ahem) 'History?' Germany was sinking shipping which was VERIFIABLY bringing war material to aid Germany's enemies. I just explained that in the previous post. Once you aid a nation against another nation, any claims of 'Neutrality' go out the window, and you become FAIR GAME. As I said, FDR WANTED a war, and was easily "egged on" by CHURCHILL and the ZIONISTS entrenched in US Banking, Industry, and Government. You smugly refer to "facts" of which you've not produced ONE which is completely accurate. You through now?

@720069mf

7 жыл бұрын

So true .

@douglaslally156

7 жыл бұрын

I think you are partially correct. Yamamoto was never convinced of swift war, at all. He never promised anything but up to a year of military supremacy in the Pacific before the industrial might of the U.S. could re-arm itself. After that he could only hope to out Admiral them. His time as a naval attache in Washington taught him that attempting war against the Americans woudl be a fools errand.

@JeremiahN22

6 жыл бұрын

Yamamoto said they would win the war for six month and he was wright . As he said American might and industry will take over and boy was he wright.All we have done is awaken A SLEEPING tiger he says and I think he was wright .

Thank you vets.

...the terrible price of complacency and undermining the capability of one’s adversary.😖🤯

May we always remember the greatest generation.

Who dislikes something like this? Haters.

@totallyfrozen

4 жыл бұрын

Progressive liberals.

Back in the 1970's I worked with a fellow that was a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. I thought it ironic that he had a Pearl Harbor Survivors Association bumper sticker on the back of his Datsun (Japanese) pickup truck. My father was on the USS Tracy, one of the first ships to enter Nagasaki Harbor after the atomic bomb. He was part of a small shore party and took a few photographs. He didn't like to talk about it.

It must have been a relief to have all of the spare parts necessary to re-equip the fleet ready and waiting somewhere....along with all of the personnel needed to do the repair work...and all of the aircraft needed to bring our air power to full war status...the next day. Somebody was planning ahead. Like Fleet Admiral Halsey said: "If they would have blown up the fuel...in storage on the hills...they would not have been able to mobilize for 6 months."