Thursday, December 07, 2006

Remembering Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Day



65 years ago today, Japan attacked U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
We forgot the lesson of Port Arthur and the Russian navy that was heavily damaged in a sneak naval attack by Japanese forces. Japan sailed up to the harbor and torpedoed the ships of Russia.
In less than two hours on a Sunday morning, waves of Japanese naval warplanes inflicted a heavy blow on America’s military:
• 18 ships in Pearl harbor were sunk or severely damaged, including the USS Arizona.
• 188 U.S. airplanes were destroyed, 159 damaged.
• 2,403 members of the U.S. military were killed, 68 civilians were killed; and 1,178 were wounded.
The attack on Dec. 7 put America into WWII and this was a day that President Franklin Roosevelt said would "live in infamy" . Funny how Admiral Yamamato was educated in the US at an America University, Yale I believe.

I hope that Red China is not allowed to do the same one day...after all they killed our troops in Korea and Truman was more worried about a great general having his hands tied in fighting that winning a conflict and US troops dying...

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