2Cool pics - Pearl Harbor

[TXwhtlHNTR]

I got this the other day, thought it was 2Cool, and something that some would like to see.
I find it amazing that these pictures survived.


*** I'm posting this in two parts because of the 10 image limit.

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68-yr-old photos stored in an old brownie camera
Fantastic photos taken 68 years ago --- sent from Ted Cowen in Arizona
Some of you will have to go to a museum to see what a Brownie camera looked like.
These photos are absolutely incredible....
Read below the first picture and then at the veryendfor FACTS...



PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA

Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941.
Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker and just recently
taken to be developed.

THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.

I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR!

PEARL HARBOR

December 7th, 1941

[TXwhtlHNTR]

Pearl Harbor

On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island , where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States).

In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu , he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which st ruck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.

At 075 3 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.
When it was over, the U.S. Losses were:

Casualties

US Army: 218 KIA, 364 WIA.
US Navy: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.
US MarineCorp: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.
Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.

TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.
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Battleships

USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
USS California (BB-4 4) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking Later repaired.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage.
USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage.
USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.
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Cruisers

USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage..
USS San Francisco (CA-38) - Light Damage.
USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage.
USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired.
USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..
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Destroyers

USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Cassin - (DD -3 7 2) Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage.
USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.
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Minelayer

USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Seaplane Tender

USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Repair Ship

USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Harbor Tug

USS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Aircraft

188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)

[Tortuga]

I'm gettin' nuithin' but a bunch of red x's for the pix, TWH..but I remember that day well, even though I wuz only 10.. Bunch of families and friends were having a 'day' on Galveston beach.. Remember all the 'grown folks' huddled around a car radio listening in shock to the reports.. Within a month of that day, every grown man in the bunch had enlisted in some branch of the Armed Services...

[TxDremz]

What am I supposed to do with this.....X?

[TXwhtlHNTR]

Originally Posted by Tortuga

I'm gettin' nuithin' but a bunch of red x's for the pix, TWH..but I remember that day well, even though I wuz only 10.. Bunch of families and friends were having a 'day' on Galveston beach.. Remember all the 'grown folks' huddled around a car radio listening in shock to the reports.. Within a month of that day, every grown man in the bunch had enlisted in some branch of the Armed Services...

Another try then - I'll skip the writing.

[TXwhtlHNTR]

[TXwhtlHNTR]

[Tortuga]

Bueno, TWH...Astounding pix...

I remember a quote from the Jap admiral in charge on his way back to Japan in his carriers after the attack...and while the Jap ambassadors were waiting to see Prez Roosevelt that day to give him their declaration of war...

When the admiral found out they had attacked without declaring war he is reported to have said to his crew..." I fear we have awakened a sleeping tiger "...and he was danged sure right on that 'un....

[slopoke]

I read somewhere that the biggest mistake of the attack that day was made by the Japanese (other than the attack itself). They failed to send the second wave in, fearing detection of their fleet, to attack and destroy the tank farms that supplied the Pacific fleet with fuel. That would have been a bigger blow to the American fleet than hitting the carriers that were not there. Some of the old pictures of the attack actually show these huge fuel tanks with planes flying over them.

[SeaDeezKnots]

I wasn't born until 1976 but those pics really **** me off.