Thread: Pearl Harbor Day Dec 7, 1941 I will never forget will you???

Pictures at the link below I couldn't bring all the pictures over here

Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941
Overview and Special Image Selection


The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

Eighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.

By late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well.

The U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.

These great Japanese successes, achieved without prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged the previously divided American people into a level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May, Japan's far-reaching offensives proceeded untroubled by fruitful opposition. American and Allied morale suffered accordingly. Under normal political circumstances, an accomodation might have been considered.

However, the memory of the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor fueled a determination to fight on. Once the Battle of Midway in early June 1942 had eliminated much of Japan's striking power, that same memory stoked a relentless war to reverse her conquests and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace.

This page features a historical overview and special image selection on the Pearl Harbor raid, chosen from the more comprehensive coverage featured in the following pages, and those linked from them:

* Pearl Harbor in 1940-1941

* Japanese Forces in the Pearl Harbor Attack

* Overall Views of the Pearl Harbor Attack


* "Battleship Row" during the Pearl Harbor Attack

* Attacks off the West Side of Ford Island

* Attacks in the Navy Yard Area

* Attacks on Airfields and Aerial Combat


* Other Raid-related Events

* Damaged Ships after the Attack


* Raid Aftermath

* Post-Attack Ship Salvage

* Remembrance of the "Day which will live in Infamy"

For additional information and related resources on the Pearl Harbor attack, see
The Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 and WWII Pacific Battles


For higher resolution images Obtaining Photographic Reproductions

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... arlhbr.htm





Here is another site from National Geographic:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/




and here is another from the National Constitution Center:


The National Constitution Center will commemorate one of America’s pivotal historical moments on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, this coming Tuesday, December 7th, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Posted by Allison Stadd

Filed in: Attractions Events

http://www.uwishunu.com/2010/12/commemo ... ecember-7/




And a finally what is happening today.....this makes me Sick


NOT YOUR FATHER'S AMERICA
Pearl Harbor Day erased! Happy Islamic New Year

Explosive outrage as Dec. 7 remembers Muslims instead of Japan attack on U.S.

Posted: January 06, 2010
8:04 pm Eastern

By Joe Kovacs
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Explosive outrage is being unleashed on a popular supermarket chain after it published a 2010 calendar marking the date of Dec. 7 with the Islamic New Year, while eliminating any mention of Pearl Harbor Day, commemorating the 1941 attack on the U.S. by Japan.


The forward magazine of USS Shaw explodes during the 2nd Japanese attack wave on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. To the left of the explosion, Shaw's stern is visible, at the end of floating drydock. At right is the bow of USS Nevada, with a tug alongside fighting fires.

Joyce Kaufman, a talk-show host on WFTL Radio in South Florida, made the "date which will live in infamy" the centerpiece of her broadcast today, expressing outrage at Publix Supermarkets for its calendar omission.


Florida talk-show host Joyce Kaufman of WFTL Radio

"We have guys that are fighting Islamic fundamentalists right now in Afghanistan and guarding them from ruining what little freedom they have achieved in Iraq," said Kaufman. "And now I gotta celebrate their new year over here in my country when they're getting on airplanes and trying to blow up planes out of the sky in Detroit? I gotta have their New Year's Day on my calendar and not Pearl Harbor Day? We've lost our minds!"

Kaufman and many callers to her station called it a "slap in the face" to all those who fought for America's freedoms over the years.

"I'm done," she said. "I'm not walking into a Publix until there's a formal apology. I'm not walking into a Publix until the calendars have all been pulled. I'm not walking into a Publix until they reissue a calendar and re-evaluate what they put on their calendars. It's a free country, but I don't have to shop there."

Some enraged listeners called in to suggest consumers shred the calendars and mail them to the supermarket's corporate headquarters in Lakeland, Fla.

One man claimed he spoke with two managers at two separate Publix stores, both of whom confirmed the 2009 edition of the calendar also had no mention of Pearl Harbor Day.

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This year, while Publix's calendar is marking well-known observances such as Passover and Palm Sunday, it also includes some obscure times including National Boss Day and Professional Assistant's Day.

Ironically, the calendar has a laundry list of independence days for foreign countries such as Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Central America, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay and Trinidad and Tobago.

"That's nice," opined Kaufman's fellow broadcaster Jeff Katz. "Don't you find it odd, though, that in South Florida with such a large Jewish population, they don't bother to mention Israeli Independence Day? I found that fascinating. Again, that would be a decision that someone in the Publix intergalactic headquarters had to make. Somebody had to decide, 'Here's what we're putting on, here's not what we're putting on;' or even worse, 'Here's what we're putting on, and here's what we're taking off.'"

Islamic New Year is not based on the 365-day solar calendar, so it falls on a different Roman calendar date each year.

Kimberly Jaeger of Publix

Kimberly Jaeger, the media and community-relations manager for the Miami division of Publix, sent Kaufman an e-mail stating:

For several years, Publix has given away calendars with valuable coupons inside. Traditionally, our calendars have solely noted holidays. Due to the number of holidays in a calendar year, days of remembrance have not been noted.

This year, Islamic New Year happens to fall on Dec. 7 (like Chinese New Year, which is also a holiday, Islamic New Year rotates dates), is a holiday, and is noted on the calendar as such.

We regret that the day of remembrance – Pearl Harbor – is not noted, and as a result of customer feedback, we will add Pearl Harbor to next year's calendar. The calendars are no longer available at retail.

"That is a deflective move," said Katz of the decision to pull the calendars off the shelves. "That's designed to get you to just simmer down, just to say, 'Hey, it's enough already. Stop talking about it. Talk about how cold it is and mention the fact that Publix sells a lot of stuff to help you deal with the cold.'"

WND spotchecked several Publix stores in person throughout Florida this afternoon, and none had the free calendars available to shoppers any longer.

Kaufman declared victory after receiving the Publix e-mail, and highlighted the power ordinary citizens have when they speak out.

"You did it!" she exclaimed. "That's how we do it. That's how we take this country back. One phone call at a time."

Katz added, "There is a much bigger issue at stake. and that's about education and that's about knowledge ... and the sacrifices of our American heroes. ... My concern today was what was missing."

Founded in 1930 by the late George W. Jenkins, Publix has grown to 1,014 stores in five Southeastern states. It's the largest employee-owned supermarket chain in the U.S., employing more than 142,000 workers and generating nearly $24 billion in sales in 2008.

One woman caller said, "This is bigger than Publix," explaining many calendars published in America today don't mention Pearl Harbor Day on Dec. 7.

"Someone has deliberately made the deliberate decision to keep it off the calendars," she said. "It's a slap in the face to America, a slap in the face to our veterans, and I'm just sick about it."

It was the December 1941 attack on U.S. forces in Hawaii that precipitated America's entry into the Second World War.

The day after the Japanese onslaught, President Franklin Roosevelt declared, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

According to the Naval History and Heritage Command, Americans losing their lives that day numbered 2,403, including 68 civilians, most of whom were killed by improperly fused anti-aircraft shells landing in Honolulu. There were 1,178 military and civilian wounded.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=121181



Kathyet

Hardly anything in the newspaper and nothing on TV...this should show you what these government officials think of our Country. They figured once all these people die off they don't have to remember it anymore..well quess what...


NOT ME!!!!!!


Kathyet