Visualizing the attack on Pearl

[Bill in Oregon]

I found this animation interesting.
I knew the man who took that famous photo of the Shaw exploding. Frank Cordeiro was a high school kid whose teacher had loaned him a camera for the weekend and he thought he'd wander down toward the base that Sunday morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cz9gtMTeI&t=2s

[JimT]

As in most all fights, the greatest plan lasts about the first 10 seconds.

[samsi]

Thanks Bill, interesting video. I'd just realized it was Pearl Harbor Day about 30 minutes ago, it doesn't get much mention in the news anymore.

[Twodot]

Pearl Harbor.jpg

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[jnyork]

News report this morning, only 12 veterans of the attack are still living.

[samsi]

Twelve isn't bad considering that they've all got to be over 100, and it's more than I expected were still around.

The last US veteran of WW1 passed in 2011, so going by that formula we should have WW2 vets among us until 2038 or so.

[Ray Newman]

The VA claims that by 2035-2036 the last of the WW II vets will have passed on.

[TraderVic]

In February 1974, my destroyer (USS Hoel DDG-13) made a port call in Pearl Harbor, on our way to the Western Pacific on my second tour. We were there for three days, so I had enough time to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, by boat.
To describe standing in the Memorial as humbling would be a huge understatement. Looking down onto the rusting hull, observing leaking oil globules floating around, it truly brought tears.
An interesting side note ; about 3/4 of the tour crowd were made up of Japanese tourists.

My first tour to WestPac (including the Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam) was on the USS John R Craig DD-885. We needed repairs so we left Vietnam and went into drydock in Sasebo, Japan for about six weeks.
During this time I had an opportunity to visit Nagasaki. While there I stood at "Ground Zero", which is now a memorial park called The Garden of Peace.

[rock-steady]

The Custodian at my elementary school was in the US Navy and was at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

I remember the big tattoos on his forearms and he walked with a limp.

I wish I could go back in time and talk to him again and ask him about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[samsi]

The father of a long ago coworker was one of the salvage divers at Pearl, he had a room dedicated to any and all memorabilia, trinkets posters and souvenirs to do with Pearl Harbor and December 7th. If asked about the attack he would only reply that it was loud.