Vintage shots from days gone by!

Where's the float plane?

 

This one one of the many photos we are posting from The Henry Ford showing interesting photos from the museums collection. They are all linked together to make it easy to view them. This is 1937 Ford Deluxe Club Coupe.

 

Is that a legit sleeve from 'back in tha day'? If so, that's really cool. Moving Sidewalks rock.

 

I did that too

 

Rickenbacker


Knox Runabout


Knox

 

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Even after 71 years, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is still hard to wrap one's brain [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]and psyche around! In what seemed the blink of an eye, the unthinkable became a living, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]dying nightmare on what had been a peaceful Sunday morning. Still, accounts of the[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]terrible assault can seem flat when one hears only the names of men and ships. The [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]scene here -- as seen and captured on film by Japanese fliers -- lends astonishing reality [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]From the National History and Heritage Command: Battleship Row, as Seen through Japanese Fliers' Eyes[/FONT]




Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 -- Torpedo planes attack "Battleship Row" at about 0800
on 7 December, as seen from a Japanese aircraft. Ships are, from lower left to right:
Nevada (BB-36) with flag raised at stern; Arizona (BB-39) with Vestal (AR-4) outboard; Tennessee
(BB-43) with West Virginia (BB-48) outboard; Maryland (BB-46) with Oklahoma (BB-37) outboard;
Neosho (AO-23) and California (BB-44). West Virginia, Oklahoma and California have been tor-
pedoed, as marked by ripples and spreading oil, and the first two are listing to port. Torpedo
drop splashes and running tracks are visible at left and center. White smoke in the distance is
from Hickam Field. Grey smoke in the center middle distance is from the torpedoed USS Helena
(CL-50), at the Navy Yard's 1010 dock. (Writing in lower right states that the image was repro-
duced by authorization of the Japan Navy Ministry. NHHC Photograph)



Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford Island, during the early part of the horizontal
bombing attack on the ships moored there. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft. Ships seen
are (from left to right): USS Nevada ; USS Arizona with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS Tennes-
see with USS West Virginia moored outboard; USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma moored out-
board; and USS Neosho, only partially visible at the extreme right. A bomb has just hit Arizona
near the stern, but she has not yet received the bomb that detonated her forward magazines. West
Virginia and Oklahoma are gushing oil from their many torpedo hits and are listing to port. Okla-
homa's port deck edge is already under water. Nevada has also been torpedoed. Japanese inscrip-
tion in lower left states that the photograph has been officially released by the Navy Ministry.
(Donation of Theodore Hutton, 21 September 1942. NHHC Photograph)



Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford Island, soon after USS Arizona was hit by bombs
and her forward magazines exploded. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft. Ships seen are (from
left to right): USS Nevada; USS Arizona (burning intensely) with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS
Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard; and USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma cap-
sized alongside. Smoke from bomb hits on Vestal and West Virginia is also visible. (Japanese in-
scription in lower left states that the photograph has been reproduced under Navy Ministry authori-
zation. NHHC Photograph)

 

USS Arizona (BB-39) ablaze, just after her forward magazines exploded. The two amazing
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]color images are from 16-mm movie film frames, shot from on board USS Solace (AH-5). At [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]right, shrouded in smoke from the fire, are the main and foremasts of USS West Virginia, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]which is listing sharply to port after she was torpedoed. Upright mast further to the right is [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]the mainmast of USS Tennessee (BB-43), moored inboard of West Virginia. The bow and [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]foremast of USS Vestal (AR-4), moored outboard of Arizona, are visible at the left. (Official [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives collection)

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From the National History and Heritage Command

Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 --
USS Oklahoma and USS Maryland during the Pearl Harbor Attack

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On 7 December 1941, USS Maryland (BB-46) was moored inboard of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), and was thus protected by her when Japanese torpedo planes struck. The unfortunate Oklahoma, an older ship with much less adequate protection against underwater damage, was hit by up to nine torpedoes. Her hull's port side was opened almost completely from below the forward gun turret back to the third turret, a distance of over 250 feet. She listed quickly, her port bilge struck the harbor bottom, and she then rolled almost completely over. Oklahoma came to rest less than twenty minutes after she was first hit. Some of her starboard underwater hull and the starboard propeller were now all that showed above the surface of Pearl Harbor.

Some of Oklahoma's men were still alive inside her upturned hull, and their rescue became the focus of an intense effort over the next two days. Thirty-two Sailors were recovered alive, but over four-hundred were killed. In 1943, the capsized ship was rolled upright and raised in one of the salvage profession's greatest undertakings, but she was not further repaired.

Maryland was hit by two bombs, which caused relatively light damage and some flooding forward. Four of her men lost their lives. The battleship was able to steam to the west coast for final repairs later in December and was fully returned to service in February 1942.


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USS Maryland at berth F-5, with men working on the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma alongside, during
or immediately after the Japanese attack. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is visible in the left background.
(Collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN-Ret. NHHC Photograph)



Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 -- USS Maryland (BB-46) alongside the capsized USS Oklahoma
(BB-37). USS West Virginia (BB-48) is burning in the background. (U.S. Navy Photograph, National
Archives Collection.)



Rescue teams at work on the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), seeking crew members trapped
inside, 7 December 1941. The starboard bilge keel is visible at the top of the upturned hull. Officers'
Motor Boats from Oklahoma and USS Argonne (AG-31) are in the foreground. USS Maryland (BB-46)
is in the background. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives Collection)



The capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), with a barge alongside to support rescue efforts, probably
on 8 December 1941. USS Maryland (BB-46) is at right, and USS California (BB-44) is in the center
distance. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives Collection)

 

The chaos and carnage of the Pearl Harbor sneak attack so taxed the best efforts of survivors, and rescue and salvage personnel that about a quarter of the approximately 2,400 men killed remain unidentified yet today. Despite dramatic advances in medical forensics, the seven intervening decades make positively IDing many of those still buried in an ancient volcanic crater at the military cemetery known as "The Punchbowl" virtually impossible.

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Taken by AP photographer Audrey McAvoy at the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu ("The Punchbowl") this photo shows
a gravestone identifying it as the resting place of 7 unknowns from
the USS Oklahoma who died in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The Navy and National Park Service has honored Ray Emory, a Pearl
Harbor survivor who pushed to put ship names on the gravestones
and identify unknown remains.


Thanks in part to unflagging effort and advocacy by Pearl Harbor survivor Ray Emory, one Indiana sailor who died on the battleship Oklahoma recently came home, after 67 years in a communal grave, to receive full military honors and to be buried alongside family members.



Alfred E. Livingston joined the U.S. Navy Jan. 14, 1941,
arriving in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Sept. 11, 1941, about
three months before the Japanese attack. Of Alfred's
humble upbringing, his nephew said that his dad and
Alfred had attended the same one-room schoolhouse.
The brothers took turns wearing the one pair of shoes
they owned.


The sailor was Petty Officer 3rd Class Alfred Eugene Livingston, a fireman assigned to the Oklahoma. The circumstances around Indiana native Livingston's death and interment were, in most respects, not atypical of the thousands of sailors, soldiers and airmen killed that morning. Alfred's body was found in the water the day after the attack. First, he was treated as unidentified, then, for years, lay misidentified. Still, unlike many whose bodies were incinerated to ash and, thus, unidentifiable, Alfred's ultimate identification awaited long decades of advancement in forensic science -- coupled with pressure for action from a tenacious Emory upon the DoD POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO).

Here is an excerpt from the Associated Press' coverage of Alfred Livingston's bittersweet, long-delayed homecoming.

Livingston's nephew, Ken Livingston, said his uncle and his father were raised together by their grandmother and attended the same one-room schoolhouse. They grew up working on farms in and around Worthington, Ind. Livingston remembers his dad saying the brothers took turns wearing a pair of shoes they shared.

When the family learned Alfred was found, they brought him home from Hawaii to be buried in the same cemetery where his grandmother and mother rest. About a third of the town showed up for his 2007 memorial service in Worthington, a town of just 1,400 about 80 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The local American Legion put up a sign welcoming home "Worthington's missing son."
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"It brought a lot of closure," said Ken Livingston, 62, his voice cracking.



Below is the official DPMO announcement. (It does not identify Ray Emory by name.)
(U.S. Depatment of Defense Announcement of July 17, 2007)

Missing WWII Sailor is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Fireman 3rd Class Alfred E. Livingston, U.S. Navy, of Worthington, Ind. He will be buried on Saturday in Worthington. On Dec. 7, 1941, Livingston was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma when it was attacked by Japanese torpedo aircraft and capsized in Pearl Harbor. The ship sustained massive casualties. Livingston was one of hundreds declared killed in action whose body was not recovered. In the aftermath of the attack, some remains were recovered from the waters of Pearl Harbor. One set of sailor’s remains was recovered and thought to be associated with the USS Arizona losses. However, when efforts to identify the sailor failed, it was inconclusive what ship he was assigned to and he was buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as The Punchbowl. In 2006, a Pearl Harbor survivor and researcher, contacted the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and suggested that the biological and dental information on file for the unknown sailor may be correlated with Livingston’s personnel file. JPAC’s analysts studied the documentation and found enough evidence to support the researcher’s findings that Livingston was actually recovered after the war even though he was originally listed as one of the hundreds of unrecoverable servicemen from the attack on Pearl Harbor. In February 2007, the grave for the unknown sailor was exhumed. Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC also used dental comparisons in the identification of Livingston’s remains.






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The Amphicar factory assembly line...

 

Jimi's Hemi; Your history lesson is humbling.
Tom S.

 

Here are a few more photos of Pearl Harbor on 12/7/41 that are out on the Internet. Unfortunately, little information is included. Two of my family members who were brothers were on the U.S.S. Oklahoma on that date. One survived, the other did not.

 

It's a reissue but I hadn't really thought about it having first seen it over 30 yrs ago. According to this it was issued 12 years after the originals in 1980. It was new to me then and not having heard of Billy or ZZ let alone Moving Sidewalks the cover sold it.

 

Thanks Jimi that was really well done. A+

 

I really THANK all of you guys, but it only took four hours of my life, and my life goes on. Any and all credit belongs to the men and women in uniform -- past or present -- who put their lives in harm's way for their country, as well as those who recorded the events of that infamous and audacious attack. Their photos seared this tragedy into even the mind's eye of those who were not there. Such photos, too, and though they are sadly moving, are a part of that societal/historical tapestry Mazooma spoke of yesterday. Bill, your brief words moved me (and, I'm sure, all who read them.)

I have to say: BIG salute to all our people in uniform and to veterans, living and gone. Because of them, we still breathe free and, mostly, sleep securely. As the proud uncle and step-uncle of two in service on our big carriers, plus two boots on the ground and two in the air, this is as important a day as Veterans Day and Memorial Day. Proud to be a citizen of the U.S., the Free World -- and of the HAMB.

 

re: Chuck Norris

 

Chuck's real name is Carlos Ray Norris.

 

I apoligize if these have already been posted.. just found this thread and have not gone through them all yet










and Jungle Pam

 

That is a very cool pic. of Ed
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It's till there, but I believe it's a bingo hall now. And of course, other small businesses.
It's on the SW corner of Admiral and Sheridan in Tulsa, OK.
It's been about 5 years since I've seen it, but it looks just the same except for the signage.
I love seeing the old photos in this thread and I'm reading it from the beginning. I'm on page 325 now. This might take a little time!

Robert

 

No doubt! Thank you.

 

Road after rain. Northern California, Ansel Adams 1959

 

And a better pic of Pam

 

“Godfather of fitness”, Jack Lalanne pulling a Cadillac, 1950s.

 

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