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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Pathfinder on December 07, 2011, 04:13:22 AM
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On this the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl, FoxNews is running 10 never before published photos from the war, especially Hawaii after the attack, including a close up of the Arizona's superstructure.
Never forget!
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2011/12/06/rare-and-unseen-pics-after-pearl-harbor/#slide=1 (http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2011/12/06/rare-and-unseen-pics-after-pearl-harbor/#slide=1)
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Thanks Path,
Medal Of Honor, For This Day:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47821
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/JohnWFinn.png)
John William Finn, USN (July 23, 1909 – May 27, 2010)
Citation:
For extraordinary heroism, distinguished service, and devotion above and beyond the call of duty. During the first attack by Japanese airplanes on the Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Territory of Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, he promptly secured and manned a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on an instruction stand in a completely exposed section of the parking ramp, which was under heavy enemy machine gun strafing fire. Although painfully wounded many times, he continued to man this gun and to return the enemy's fire vigorously and with telling effect throughout the enemy strafing and bombing attacks and with complete disregard for his own personal safety. It was only by specific orders that he was persuaded to leave his post to seek medical attention. Following first-aid treatment, although obviously suffering much pain and moving with great difficulty, he returned to the squadron area and actively supervised the rearming of returning planes. His extraordinary heroism and conduct in this action are considered to be in keeping with the highest traditions of the Naval Service.
(judging by the expression on his face, I think he wants to kill more Japs.)
In honor of all Pearl harbor heroes, and in remembrance of their sacrifices on that day which forever changed America, this edition of MoH Roll Call features the last MoH recipient to pass on from among those who were there on December 7th, 1941.
Let us never forget…
--Robert J. Laplander
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On this the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl, FoxNews is running 10 never before published photos from the war, especially Hawaii after the attack, including a close up of the Arizona's superstructure.
Never forget!
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(http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv333/darrinheard/pups016.jpg)
view from my stateroom last time I was in Pearl, (last year). arrogant chief would not let us out in time to go over and see the monument while we were there. (what a prick)
deepwater
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Would love to get to Hawaii and visit the memorial.
I agree that we should never forget.
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What a lousy chief.
Would be better to have a mandatory visit to the memorial for all sailors in port....and I'm pretty much against mandatory anything.
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Somewhere I have a picture of my re-enlistment on the Arizona Memorial. Very solemn feeling as soon as you got aboard.
It's simply amazing that the Arizona and Utah were the only ships that was damaged that didn't fight again later in the war.
Battleships
Arizona: Exploded; total loss. 1,177 dead.
Oklahoma: Capsized, 429 dead. Refloated November 1943; capsized and lost while under tow to the mainland May 1947 [85]
West Virginia: two bombs, seven torpedoes, sunk; returned to service July 1944. 106 dead.
California: two bombs, two torpedoes, sunk; returned to service January 1944. 100 dead.
Nevada: six bombs, one torpedo, beached; returned to service October 1942. 60 dead.
Tennessee: two bombs; returned to service February 1942. 5 dead.
Maryland: two bombs; returned to service February 1942. 4 dead (including floatplane pilot shot down).
Pennsylvania (Kimmel’s Flagship):[86] in drydock with Cassin and Downes, one bomb, debris from USS Cassin; remained in service. 9 dead.
Ex-battleship (target/AA training ship)
Utah: Capsized; total loss. 58 dead.
Cruisers
Helena: One torpedo; returned to service January 1942. 20 dead.
Raleigh: One torpedo; remained in service.
Honolulu: Near miss, light damage; remained in service.
Destroyers
Cassin: in drydock with Downes and Pennsylvania, one bomb, burned; returned to service February 1944.
Downes: in drydock with Cassin and Pennsylvania, caught fire from Cassin, burned; returned to service November 1943.
Shaw: Three bombs; returned to service June 1942.
Auxiliaries
Oglala (minelayer): Damaged by torpedo hit on Helena, capsized; returned to service (as engine-repair ship) February 1944.
Vestal (repair ship): Two bombs, blast and fire from Arizona, beached; returned to service by August 1942.
Curtiss (seaplane tender): One bomb, one Japanese aircraft; returned to service January 1942. 19 dead.
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