Dec 07 1941....take a moment to pause.
Dan
Dec 07 1941....take a moment to pause.
Dan
Yep, first thing I thought of this morning was Pearl Harbor. Wonder how many Americans under the age of say 40 even know what happened on this day?
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Pear Harbor Day.
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Originally Posted by Richard Simmons
07 December 1941. Pearl Harbor attacked by the Japanese.
06 August 1945. Payback, first instalment.
09 August 1945. Payback, final instalment.
Yamamoto should have never poked the sleeping giant.
Gentlemen may prefer Blondes, but Real Men prefer Redheads!
07 December 1941, the day FDR's plan to pull the United States into global conflict succeeds.
"I'm fucking furious, I'm violently angry, and I like it. If you don't know what that feels like then I feel bad for you"
Actually Yamamoto didn't want war with the U.S. He had studied here and understood Americans better than Tojo's band of Nationalists. But he was an active Duty Admiral and he had to obey his orders. He was also the one who predicted that Japan would enjoy victory for only about 6 months, and then the American juggernaut would steamroll over them. It must have sucked to be right, but no one listened to you, and being in the uniform, you had to do what you were told.
True, but unlike other government acts, this one was necessary.
Without the US in WW-II, Germany may very well have won the Eurpoean war... then we would have been next on the list.
Better to fight them THERE than HERE.
Gentlemen may prefer Blondes, but Real Men prefer Redheads!
I was really thinking about the decades of US military involvement in the pacific, but nearly causing the extermination of western civilization by creating the building blocks of the cold war is pretty bad too, and all in the name of post-war investments in rebuilding Europe, AKA ensuring FDR's legacy of ending the great depression and launching the US into the position of being a world superpower.
"I'm fucking furious, I'm violently angry, and I like it. If you don't know what that feels like then I feel bad for you"
Incorrect the first payback was Doolittle's raid oin Tokyo.
The psychological effect of the Doolittle raid did more damage than the nuclear bombs did.
When from impenetrable fortress to holy crap we're getting bombed real quick.
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail." ----- Jack Burton 1986
Eventually we got close enough to do a massive WP fire bomb raid over Tokyo. That one killed more than the nukes. Ceated a massive firestorm.
One of two places that I have been unable to recall being without a catch in my voice while speaking about them.
The other? Gettysburg!
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