Pearl Harbor

[Sully]

Pearl Harbor: This is what takes place after the tourists have gone for the day. http://www.youtube.com/embed/MgE2KiPd3xg

 

[Rod69]

Very nice Sully, very touching. God Bless America!!!

 

[Downtown Cowtown]

my dad 50 missions two presidential citations. B-17 door gunner. North Africa to the belly of the beast, Schweinfurt on black Thursday was one of them, Hornets nest over Gerbaini was one also, 50 Nazis shot down, 8 possibles, he said it was a busy day,

Ben warmer, shot down 8 planes himself, with his previous kills he became an enlisted double ace that day and a battlefield promotion to LT. He was 2 planes to the left of my dad.

My uncle killed in a b-17 crash he enlisted with my dad. Dad was a crack shot, gunnery instructor Mountain home Idaho, uncle died training while there with my dad .

 

[rhino 2]

The day the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor............

 

[Downtown Cowtown]

The day the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor............

The day the japs started it all, and Roosevelt used the excuse he was looking for to save England, he and Churchill had been collaborating on.

The far east took second fiddle to the war FDR was really interested in. The fuse was lit in Pearl, it was jus one action that started it all.

I still have a relative in the belly of the Oklahoma. Miserable way to go out.

But given time the Nazis would have got to Pearl sooner or later, the whole world was their target. But you know all this smarty pants.

Next to last is a motorcycle buried from WWII and found with a detector. What a find.

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Holy crap how did these pics get so big, ?? never before like that i cant see all the pic on the pic without moving it left or right. :Shrug:

 

[rhino 2]

The day the japs started it all, and Roosevelt used the excuse he was looking for to save England, he and Churchill had been collaborating on.

The far east took second fiddle to the war FDR was really interested in.

Thats exactly what my Old Man would say.... And he would add that the general feeling of the day was the Japs all wore thick coke bottle glasses and couldn't fly too well.
And would /couldn't do too much damage.. So let them hit us...And we could rally the troops and erase the isolationists in this country and then save England... And that dumb ass Hitler helped Roosevelt by declaring war on us a few days later..
I guess it all ended well though.......ThumbUp

 

[Downtown Cowtown]

Thats exactly what my Old Man would say.... And he would add that the general feeling of the day was the Japs all wore thick coke bottle glasses and couldn't fly too well.
And would /couldn't do too much damage.. So let them hit us...And we could rally the troops and erase the isolationists in this country and then save England... And that dumb ass Hitler helped Roosevelt by declaring war on us a few days later..
I guess it all ended well though.......ThumbUp

Where it all began.

Father knows best ???