Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2019: Historic photos of Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941

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Sadly, the Greatest Generation gave birth to the worst generation. But today we remember the former. Today we remember the great Americans who fought and died so that we might live free. Thank you for saving the free world just days after an unbalanced U.S. Navy sailor fatally shot two people at Pearl Harbor before killing himself. He had a history of violence and trouble and one can imagine why he was not discharged long before he took the lives of fellow soldiers.

“December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy no matter how long it may take us to overcome the premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous mind, will win through absolute victory.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The bombing killed more than 2,400 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. Oklahoma. The attack brought the United States into World War II.

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And so came American resolve. The worst of circumstances brought out the very best in us. We didn’t cower, submit or retreat. We held fast to our convictions and beliefs and never stopped or gave up.

America’s darkest hour led to our finest shining hour.

Color footage of the attack

The only known color footage of the Japanese attack was short by a U.S. serviceman using his own camera.

What the greatest generation did for freedom, its offspring has systematically destroyed. Perhaps because they fought an incomprehensible evil, stood at the edge of the abyss and against all odds prevailed and gifted their baby boomer children the greatest of all precious gifts – freedom, but at little to no cost to them. Certainly that is true of the children of the late twentieth century. This was exploited by the leftwign enemy who exploited our freedoms to destroy our freedoms.

The late World War II combat veteran and memoirist E. B. Sledge enshrined his generation of fellow Marines as “The Old Breed” in his gripping account of the hellish battle of Okinawa. Now, most of those who fought in World War II are either dead or in their nineties.

Much has been written about the disappearance of these members of the Greatest Generation—there are now over 1,000 veterans passing away per day. Of the 16 million who at one time served in the American military during World War II, only about a half-million are still alive.

Military historians, of course, lament the loss of their first-hand recollections of battle. The collective memories of these veterans were never systematically recorded and catalogued. Yet even in haphazard fashion, their stories of dropping into Sainte-Mère-Église or surviving a sinking Liberty ship in the frigid North Atlantic have offered correctives about the war otherwise impossible to attain from the data of national archives.

More worrisome, however, is that the collective ethos of the World War II generation is fading. It may not have been fully absorbed by the Baby Boomer generation and has not been fully passed on to today’s young adults, the so-called Millennials. While U.S. soldiers proved heroic and lethal in Afghanistan and Iraq, their sacrifices were never commensurately appreciated by the larger culture.

The generation that came of age in the 1940s had survived the poverty of the Great Depression to win a global war that cost 60 million lives, while participating in the most profound economic and technological transformation in human history as a once rural America metamorphosed into a largely urban and suburban culture of vast wealth and leisure.

Their achievement from 1941 to 1945 remains unprecedented. The United States on the eve of World War II had an army smaller than Portugal’s. It finished the conflict with a global navy larger than all of the fleets of the world put together. By 1945, America had a GDP equal to those of Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the British Empire combined. With a population 50 million people smaller than that of the USSR, the United States fielded a military of roughly the same size.

America almost uniquely fought at once in the Pacific, Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, on and beneath the seas, in the skies, and on land. On the eve of the war, America’s military and political leaders, still traumatized by the Great Depression, fought bitterly over modest military appropriations, unsure of whether the country could afford even a single additional aircraft carrier or another small squadron of B-17s. Yet four years later, civilians had built 120 carriers of various types and were producing a B-24 bomber at the rate of one an hour at the Willow Run factory in Michigan. Such vast changes are still difficult to appreciate.

Certainly, what was learned through poverty and mayhem by those Americans born in the 1920s became invaluable in the decades following the war. The World War II cohort was a can-do generation who believed that they did not need to be perfect to be good enough. The strategic and operational disasters of World War II—the calamitous daylight bombing campaign of Europe in 1942-43, the quagmire of the Heurtgen Forest, or being surprised at the Battle of Bulge—hardly demoralized these men and women.

Miscalculations and follies were not blame-gamed or endlessly litigated, but were instead seen as tragic setbacks on the otherwise inevitable trajectory to victory. When we review their postwar technological achievements—from the interstate highway system and California Water Project to the Apollo missions and the Lockheed SR-71 flights—it is difficult to detect comparable confidence and audacity in subsequent generations. To paraphrase Nietzsche, anything that did not kill those of the Old Breed generation made them stronger and more assured.

As an ignorant teenager, I once asked my father whether the war had been worth it. After all, I smugly pointed out, the “victory” had ensured the postwar empowerment and global ascendance of the Soviet Union. My father had been a combat veteran during the war, flying nearly 40 missions over Japan as the central fire control gunner in a B-29. He replied in an instant, “You win the battle in front of you and then just go on to the next.”

I wondered where his assurance came. Fourteen of 16 planes—each holding eleven crewmen—in his initial squadron of bombers were lost to enemy action or mechanical problems. The planes were gargantuan, problem-plagued, and still experimental—and some of them also simply vanished on the 3,000-mile nocturnal flight over the empty Pacific from Tinian to Tokyo and back.

As a college student, I once pressed him about my cousin and his closest male relative, Victor Hanson, a corporal of the Sixth Marine Division who was killed on the last day of the assault on Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. Wasn’t the unimaginative Marine tactic of plowing straight ahead through entrenched and fortified Japanese positions insane? He answered dryly, “Maybe, maybe not. But the enemy was in the way, then Marines took them out, and they were no longer in the way.”

My father, William F. Hanson, died when I was 45 and I still recall his advice whenever I am at an impasse, personally or professionally. “Just barrel ahead onto the next mission.” Such a spirit, which defined his generation, is the antithesis of the therapeutic culture that is the legacy of my generation of Baby Boomers—and I believe it explains everything from the spectacular economic growth of the 1960s to the audacity of landing a man on the moon.

On rare occasions over the last thirty years, I’ve run into hard-left professors who had been combat pilots over Germany or fought the Germans in Italy. I never could quite muster the energy to oppose them; they seemed too earnest and too genuine in what I thought were their mistaken views. I mostly kept quiet, recalling Pericles’s controversial advice that a man’s combat service and sacrifice for his country should wash away his perceived blemishes. Perhaps it’s an amoral and illogical admonition, but it has nonetheless stayed with me throughout the years. It perhaps explains why I look at John F. Kennedy’s personal foibles in a different light from those similar excesses of Bill Clinton. A man, I tend to think, should be judged by his best moments rather than his worst ones.

Growing up with a father, uncles, and cousins who struggled to maintain our California farm during the Depression and then fought in an existential war was a constant immersion in their predominantly tragic view of life. Most were chain smokers, ate and drank too much, drove too fast, avoided doctors, and were often impulsive—as if in their fifties and sixties, they were still prepping for another amphibious assault or day-time run over the Third Reich. Though they viewed human nature with suspicion, they were nonetheless upbeat—their Homeric optimism empowered by an acceptance of a man’s limitations during his brief and often tragic life. Time was short; but heroism was eternal. “Of course you can” was their stock reply to any hint of uncertainty about a decision. The World War II generation had little patience with subtlety, or even the suggestion of indecision—how could it when such things would have gotten them killed at Monte Cassino or stalking a Japanese convoy under the Pacific in a submarine?

After the stubborn poverty and stasis of the Great Depression, the Old Breed saw the challenge of World War II as redemptive—a pragmatic extension of President Franklin Roosevelt news-conference confession that the “Old Dr. New Deal” had been supplanted by the new “Dr. Win-the-War” in restoring prosperity.

One lesson of the war on my father’s generation was that dramatic action was always preferable to incrementalism, even if that meant that the postwar “best and brightest” would sometimes plunge into unwise policies at home or misadventures abroad. Another lesson the World War II generation learned—a lesson now almost forgotten—was that perseverance and its twin courage were the most important of all collective virtues. What was worse than a bad war was losing it. And given their sometimes tragic view of human nature, the Old Breed believed that winning changed a lot of minds, as if the policy itself was not as important as the appreciation that it was working.

In reaction to the stubborn certainty of our fathers, we of the Baby Boomer generation prided ourselves on introspection, questioning authority, and nuance. We certainly saw doubt and uncertainty as virtues rather than vices—but not necessarily because we saw these traits as correctives to the excesses of the GIs. Rather, as one follows the trajectory of my generation, whose members are now in their sixties and seventies, it is difficult not to conclude that we were contemplative and critical mostly because we could be—our mindset being the product of a far safer, more prosperous, and leisured society that did not face the existential challenges of those who bequeathed such bounty to us. Had the veterans of Henry Kaiser’s shipyards been in charge of California’s high-speed rail project, they would have built on time and on budget, rather than endlessly litigating various issues as costs soared in pursuit of a mythical perfection.

The logical conclusion of our cohort’s emphasis on “finding oneself” and discovering an “inner self” is the now iconic ad of a young man in pajamas sipping hot chocolate while contemplating signing up for government health insurance. Such, it seems, is the arrested millennial mindset. The man-child ad is just 70 years removed from the eighteen-year-olds who fought and died on Guadalcanal and above Schweinfurt, but that disconnect now seems like an abyss over centuries. One cannot loiter one’s mornings away when there is a plane to fly or a tank to build. I am not sure that presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower were always better men than were presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, but they were certainly bigger in the challenges they faced and the spirit in which they met them.

This Thanksgiving, let us give a toast to the millions who are no longer with us and the thousands who will soon depart this earth. They gave us a world far better than they inherited.

Battleship USS West Virginia sunk and burning at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. In background is the battleship USS Tennessee.

 

Black smoke rises from the burning wrecks of several U.S. Navy battleships after they had been bombed during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
The wreckage of a drug store smolders at Waikiki after attack by Japanese planes, Dec. 7 1941. (AP Photo)
7th December 1941: A picture taken from a Japanese bomber showing another Japanese plane and plumes of black smoke on the ground during the attack on Pearl Harbour (Pearl Harbor). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
“Japanese cabinet meets in emergency session,” is the bulletin shown in Times Square’s news zipper in lights on the New York Times building, New York, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin)
American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1942. (AP Photo)
Black smoke pours from the U.S. destroyer USS Shaw after a direct hit by bombs during the surprise aerial attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. Defenders on the pier at left throw water into the blazing wreckage.

 

 

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BanLiberals
BanLiberals
4 years ago
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

The battleships lost at Pearl Harbor were already obsolete as they couldn’t keep up w/the carrier task groups. I’m almost surprised the Japanese went ahead and attacked Pearl Harbor when the fleet carriers of the USN weren’t even there. They should’ve launched a second strike against the fleet oil storage tanks.
Admiral Yamamoto himself (whose first name was the age of this father) felt the best Imperial Japan could hope for was a negotiated peace as he knew JP had no hope of defeating the USA w/its vast natural resources and manufacturing capability.

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

They should’ve launched a second strike against the fleet oil storage tanks. — you know where they are located??

The Japanese plan called for an attack in three waves; the first would take advantage of surprise to knock out any air resistance and to attack the highest value targets first; the carriers and battleships. The second would be for mop up and take out cruisers and destroyers. The third would then attack dry docks, oil tanks, and other stationary targets.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Sweetp Holt

They never attacked the gigantic fuel oil bunkers. One of the famous IJN squadron leaders tried to lobby the brass for another attack against the fuel oil bunkers but was overruled.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
4 years ago

Indeed true. The Pennsylvania, only lightly damaged on December 7, could barely do 21 knots. On a good day.

Somewhat related – proof we never learned from history.

On Dec. 6, the carrier Lexington was ordered out of Pearl Harbor to join a task force (TF 16) with USS Enterprise commanded by Vice Admiral William F. Halsey. This task force was out of position to counter-attack the IJN First Carrier Striking Force under OTC Vice Admiral Nagumo once it was known an attack at Pearl Harbor was underway.

Nagumo was actually considered to be conservative, which may explain he reluctance to launch a second attack against Pearl Harbor. He may have known of TF 16 as well, as he had intelligence Lexington had put to sea, adding to his reluctance to launch a second attack.

Sixty years later, airliners were ordered grounded and the skies became quiet after 9/11. So Saudis could be scram-doodled out of the good old USA to be used against us at some time in the future. Like December 6, 2019 in Florida.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

I believe Halsey tried to chase down the IJN strike force — luckily he got nowhere near them because he would’ve been trounced.
Our government has been so corrupted by islamic petrodollars and infiltrated/subverted by muslums, muslum collaborators, muslum sympathizers I see no option but civil war at this point or it’ll be Shariah law for everyone, in whole or in part.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Those old battlewagons at Pearl Harbor didn’t even have radar sets.

Public_Citizen
Public_Citizen
4 years ago

They didn’t have RADAR because the equipment, including the antennas, was too big to go on any mobile platform, including something as large as a Battleship.
It wasn’t until 1943 that the equipment became compact enough for practical mobile use.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Public_Citizen

I had thought the US carriers had radar sets in the battle of the Coral Sea in ’42’?

Public_Citizen
Public_Citizen
4 years ago

You are correct.
Further research on my part shows that they had systems small enough to install on the Carriers and Battleships by the end of 1941, with the USS California, sunk at Pearl Harbor, having one of the very first operational sets.
It didn’t come into widespread tactical use until ’43 with the conversion of Destroyers to Picket Ships capable of providing a wide area screen for the Carrier Task Forces.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
4 years ago

Indeed true. The Pennsylvania, only lightly damaged on December 7, could barely do 21 knots. On a good day.

Somewhat related – proof we never learned from history.

On Dec. 6, the carrier Lexington was ordered out of Pearl Harbor to join a task force (TF 16) with USS Enterprise commanded by Vice Admiral William F. Halsey. This task force was out of position to counter-attack the IJN First Carrier Striking Force under OTC Vice Admiral Nagumo once it was known an attack at Pearl Harbor was underway.

Nagumo was actually considered to be conservative, which may explain he reluctance to launch a second attack against Pearl Harbor. He may have known of TF 16 as well, as he had intelligence Lexington had put to sea, adding to his reluctance to launch a second attack.

Sixty years later, airliners were ordered grounded and the skies became quiet after 9/11. So Saudis could be scram-doodled out of the good old USA to be used against us at some time in the future. Like December 6, 2019 in Florida.

patd
patd
4 years ago

And today the politicians are allowing foreigners and muslims to destroy America!!!!!!

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

What a terribly sad day that must have been. We should always remember that.
Then came 9/11 where “somebody did something”. We lost more people on
9/11 than at Pearl Harbor and we have forgotten ISLAM made this happen.

Dennis
Dennis
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

…also well said.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

Can you imagine the U.S. bringing in Germans while Hitler was in power or the Japanese as we fought with Japan as “refugees”? This is how inane we have become.

BTW, ‘Muhammad’ Breaks Into Top 10 U.S. Baby Names for First Time Ever
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/05/muhammad-breaks-into-top-10-u-s-baby-names-for-first-time-ever/

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
4 years ago

God bless the brave …

When the Klan shot up my grandfather’s Fairlane – it was the 2d, 3d or 4th time, I forget –

… he showed me the holes and told me who did it and why …

… and I asked him if he was afraid …

… and he said, “No. [The Klan] are cowards. … Real men don’t shoot your car. They knock on your door and ask you to step outside.”

Never forgot that.

He served as CB in the Navy in every major battle of the Pacific …

God bless America, and God bless our heroes …

Dennis
Dennis
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Well said.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

As long as they weren’t shooting up a Chevy Impala!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

I was just kidding!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

I was just kidding!

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Too bad there aren’t more like your grandfather around today. A hero, indeed!

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago

The question was USA right to use the A-bombs, Yes.

Today we have seen many Lame Ducks in politics and the left is full with them. Fortuneately we have Donald Trump who stands up against the left..

Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, The WW2 Japanese Plan to Wage Biological Warfare on the USA
https://m.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/operation-cherry-blossoms-night.html

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

saved a lot of Japs as well as Us military personal.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago
Reply to  Sweetp Holt

Yes I guess Japan would have been obliviated if Germ Warfare unleased on USA September 1945

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Yes, it was RIGHT!
We saved lives and ended it.
They aren’t taught that.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

It saved USA, and other countries from Japan using germ Warfare. Many lives saved.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Yes, it was RIGHT!
We saved lives and ended it.
They aren’t taught that.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago

We must not forget the fallen who gave our freedom and we must fight even hardrr to protect them

Joatmoaf
Joatmoaf
4 years ago

Thank you, Pam. Never forget.

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pearl-Harbor-and-the-back-door-to-war-theory-1688287

How did Roosevelt precipitate the conflict with Japan and prepare the country for war in Europe? The revisionists argue that key events leading up to the U.S. declaration of war in 1941 show that Roosevelt sometimes used deceitful tactics to increase U.S. involvement gradually and to stir up pro-war sentiments in the American public. In their view, the circumstances immediately surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, when interpreted in light of Roosevelt’s behaviour in the preceding years, strongly suggest that he intentionally provoked the Japanese attack.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Sweetp Holt

From what I read the USA back in the 1940’s was THE major exporter of petroleum to the rest of the world. Roosevelt ordered a boycott of sales of petroleum to Imperial JP, which put a major crimp in their activities across Asia and into China — although how going to war w/the US would resolve that boycott I can’t fathom.

Public_Citizen
Public_Citizen
4 years ago

The US embargoing what were defined as “War Materials” started long before the petroleum exports went into force.
As early as the time when Japan invaded China the embargo’s started to be placed into effect, with a gradual broadening of embargoed materials taking place in the hopes that it would have the desired effect of curbing Japanese Imperial Ambitions.
As events demonstrated, it didn’t work

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
4 years ago
Reply to  Sweetp Holt

Yamamoto admitted though, that he needed five more years to have the Japanese Navy built to a point where it could contain the US Navy in the Pacific. He told leadership in Tokyo that if the conflict, once started, lasted more than two years, Japan would not enjoy final victory over the United States.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

AFAIK, the extent of Yamamoto’s plans were to take Midway and Hawaii (LOL) after that he would raid the W. coast of the USA w/his carrier fleet. By the end of the war there were more US Essex class carriers in action than the UK and Imperial JP ever had put together and that says it all.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
4 years ago

The huge Midway class was under construction too.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Why did wooden decked carriers become a thing of the past w/the USN? I had thought the wooden decks kept the carriers lighter than they would be w/a steel deck?

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
4 years ago

The British were for steel decks. Wooden decks were better also because they could be repaired more quickly.

Public_Citizen
Public_Citizen
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Yamamoto had the advantage of being educated in the USA so was much more aware of the resources and capabilities of the USA than Japans other military leaders who did not posses similar knowledge and perspective.
Japan’s High Command was still suffering from the long term effects of Japan’s insular policies of previous generations and the belief in inherent Japanese superiority.

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pearl-Harbor-and-the-back-door-to-war-theory-1688287

How did Roosevelt precipitate the conflict with Japan and prepare the country for war in Europe? The revisionists argue that key events leading up to the U.S. declaration of war in 1941 show that Roosevelt sometimes used deceitful tactics to increase U.S. involvement gradually and to stir up pro-war sentiments in the American public. In their view, the circumstances immediately surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, when interpreted in light of Roosevelt’s behaviour in the preceding years, strongly suggest that he intentionally provoked the Japanese attack.

Dennis
Dennis
4 years ago

A fascinating article, to say the least. Having had members
of my family directly involved in the war effort with the Army Air Force and
Army, and as a youngster listening to their conversations about their war
effort, I have always been impressed by their valor and the matter of fact attitude
they had concerning what to me was courage beyond belief. Yet, today, I see in
the younger generation a total failure to understand that this world requires
of its people affirmative efforts to persevere, be productive, be respectful,
and expect no handouts! I see the youngsters of today seeing the pathway as consistent
with having things handed out to them, something I never saw in those who lived
thru WWII. My relatives never expected compliments for their service, but they
had the kind of characteristics that made them respectful and appreciative of
the fact that they were Americans. God bless the memories of all those who made
this country what it is today, and I hope that our younger generation grows to
understand that America cannot survive a hand out society, and that socialism
is not the right direction for our nation.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

They aren’t taught proper history so they are clueless.
They are taught to be critical of our history and it is presented in a negative light.
For example. we stole the land from the Indians and the Mexicans.

Public_Citizen
Public_Citizen
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

When in reality it was the Conquistadors who “appropriated” the entirety of what is now the Southwest.
The Americans came later, and after wars with the inheritors of the Conquistadors, now called Mexicans, the USA ~bought~ the land through treaty arrangements.
The inheritors of the Conquistadors still labor under the mental burden of the Conquistador Mindset, which goes a long way to explain the levels of corruption in the Mexican Government and the attitude leading to the current attempts to steal the Southwest USA by “reconquista”.
From my perspective, every person who espouses “reconquista” [La Raza {which translates into English as “The Race”} I’m looking right at you] should be identified as a Seditionist and potential Traitor, and dealt with accordingly.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

For perspective, watch “Tora, Tora, Tora”(’70) with its star-studded cast for a factual treatment of that day. Then watch “Above and Beyond”(’52) with Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker about the development and deployment of the A-bomb to settle your ire.

Watto
Watto
4 years ago

A good book about the raid on Pearl Harbour is “At Dawn We Slept” by Gordon W Prange. The way the US treated Adm. Kimmel and Lt.Gen. Short was appalling. They kept information from them, kept men and supplies from them and took ships from Pearl for the Atlantic. Then, to top it all, the American government put them on trial.
Did Roosevelt have prior knowledge of the attack? Possibly, although no evidence has been put forward. Roosevelt was far more worried about about Hitler so maybe the Japanese attack gave him the opportunity to involve himself helping Churchill.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  Watto

In 1947 a House committee reexamined the events at Pearl Harbor, primarily because the Roberts Commission report was nothing more than a hatchet job on Kimmel and Short. Though the statute of limitations had expired for them to face a court martial, they were asked if they would give up that protection as the House Committee began its work. Both agreed to and they were found blameless.

Flying_Sword
Flying_Sword
4 years ago
Reply to  Watto

FDR was a communist collaborator and a criminal.

bailiwick
bailiwick
4 years ago

You Americans are blinded by propaganda of your politicians.
Pearl Harbor is fine example of how whole nation can be fooled by one politician and his cabinet. All is needed, 2 or 4 thousand killed, and their plans can go forward.
It is only matter of time when real truth comes out about 9/11.

Do you, Americans, remember principle and importance of your famous Monroe doctrine?
It seems, NOT.
It was very good doctrine, but from very beginning it was against interests of very powerful people.
Here’s little excerpt from book “The Enemy Unmasked” by Bill Hughes, one of Americans with open eyes:
————————————————————–

President Roosevelt’s responsibility for goading the Japanese into war by sending a war ultimatum on November 26, 1941, demanding that the Japanese withdraw all troops from Indo-china, and China (Manchuria) is an historic fact, although a closely-guarded secret.
FDR’s war ultimatum was deliberately withheld from Congress until after Pearl Harbor… all agreed that the ultimatum left Japan no alternative but war…
The Japanese would have done almost anything to avoid war with America…
Prince Kenoye, the prime minister, who was very peacefully inclined, repeatedly requested to come to Washington or Honolulu to meet with President Roosevelt.
He was willing to agree to our terms to keep out of war on a modus vivendi but FDR refused to talk with the Japanese prime minister simply because he was determined to get into war with Japan, and through that, with Germany. The American ambassador in Tokyo, Joseph Grew, knew how much the Japanese wanted to maintain peaceful relations and urged such a conference. But FDR and his fellow ardent interventionists used ruses, dodges and tricks to involve us in a totally unnecessary war. — Hamilton Fish, FDR- The Other Side of the Coin,
Vantage Press, pp. 132-134.

Fish believed that Roosevelt’s deception of the American people
was an immoral and infamous act. This shrewd and astute politician covered his tracks by shouting from the housetops and denouncing the attack on Pearl Harbor as a day of infamy, blaming it entirely on the Japanese. While Roosevelt was trying to bring America into war with Japan, he was telling Americans, “While I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, and I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.” — ibid. p. 29.
In both cases, with WWI and WWII, Wilson and Roosevelt assured Americans that their sons would not be going into any war, and while they were lying, they were preparing plans to get American to fight in the war. Both of these men were made out by the Jesuit controlled press as God fearing men who would not lie. In both cases, America lost so many lives and their blood will be on the hands of those lying, wicked, and heartless politicians who were following their masters and not standing up for the rights of Americans!!!

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Very well said.
And you, Americans, are on their wagon of lies still since.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  bailiwick

‘The Japanese would have done almost anything to avoid war with America…’
Except not bombing Pearl Harbor and the Philippines.

GrayFox
GrayFox
4 years ago

FYI, One of the AP photos has the date as Dec 7, 1942. SB 1941. A lot of lives lost during WWII. The numbers could be small compared to the next world war.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

A sad day in history.

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