We Remember...

Oct 22, 2014
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CAL 35 Cruiser #21 moored EVERETT WA
07 December 1941.
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
To remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

I have had the fortune to have known 2 men who were there that day. And one I never knew, in person, my Grandfather, CDR Hugh W Hadley. He was the Navigator aboard the USS Maryland on that day. He too survived the day, but was lost when the USS Little DD79/APD-4 sank off Lunga Pt, Guadalcanal 05 September 1942.

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Jan 11, 2014
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Sabre 362 113 Fair Haven, NY
Let us not forget they died fighting tyrants and dictators, they died fighting to protect democracy. Let us honor their lives.

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Oct 1, 2007
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Boston Whaler Super Sport Pt. Judith
07 December 1941.
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
To remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

I have had the fortune to have known 2 men who were there that day. And one I never knew, in person, my Grandfather, CDR Hugh W Hadley. He was the Navigator aboard the USS Maryland on that day. He too survived the day, but was lost when the USS Little DD79/APD-4 sank off Lunga Pt, Guadalcanal 05 September 1942.

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My dad was torpedoed twice in the south Pacific. Both ships survived, as did he. God rest his soul......
 
Jul 7, 2004
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Hunter 30T Cheney, KS
Interesting. A WWII plane that could cover 1900 miles! Not much of an attack but it did give warning to Pearl.
 
Dec 2, 1997
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A few days late with this, but it took me a while to find it again:

Sunday, December 7th, 1941— Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington, DC. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone.
He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection, and defeat--you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.

On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters everywhere you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?"
Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?"
Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?
Nimitz explained:
Mistake number one:
The Japanese attacked Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two:
When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.
Mistake number three: Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in above-ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply.
That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or, God was taking care of America."

--Peggie