Event Coverage Pearl Harbor Day

Thank you Ryan. This is important to many of us.
If there is a "political" post how about deleting it, instead of the entire thread.
Sailors in Hawaii in WW2.

 

There is a WWII vet in my small town that I have seen many times. I had no idea he was a vet, will be sure to talk with him next time we cross paths. http://www.scnews.com/news/article_cbc3f758-bb45-11e6-ae77-27fb86087090.html
I'm hoping to honor him as a rider in my Model T in next years fair parade?

 

Bullet-riddled Army staff car at Wheeler Field

 

Kaneohe Bay Airfield

 

I THINK this is Hickam?

 

Calais, France

Dunkirk evacuation

 

WW2 created a fusion of new technology and young men (and women) trained in its application. The post war drive to live large, to create, to have fun came from their experiences. We owe most everything about hot rodding to them.

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Thanks for getting this going Ryan.

When I was a kid I worked at a VW shop in SoCal. There was a Pearl Harbor survivor that came in quite a bit. He would always tell me stories of what happened, speaking of the day while tears would roll down his face. He saw some horrible **** I could never imagine. I never understood (and still don't) how bad it was there. Looking back I wish I would have listened and learned more from him. Much of the history lived inside him.
Take the time to listen to the older vets. They have so much history to share.

 

A m*** of twisted metal wreckage lay along a Honolulu street after the city had been attacked by Japanese planes Dec. 7, 1941.

 

Events such as this cut the evolving Hotrod/Custom scene to a near standstill. Definately understandable. War is hell. This was part of it...an appetizer to the main course of hell that it was.

As eluded those that were involved did apply mechanical knowledge learned and gleaned if they came back.

So as with all of these memorialized events with good reason, I thank those involved for the freedom I have today. We were allied together to fight the tyranny then and continue today.

Lest We Forget.

 

Japanese bombers targeted the Army Air base at Hickam Field, in addition to Pearl Harbor Navy Base. This is a photograph of a hangar at Hickam Field after the Japanese attack:

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My friend Mel was a pilot in the Army Air Corps, and he was working on the apron in front of that hangar 75 years ago. Hickam Field sits on a bench above Pearl Harbor, and Mel said that he had a front row seat watching the carnage at the Navy Base. Then he saw six Japanese bombers headed straight toward him. In his words, "I had nowhere to go and no time to get there." Mel realized that his hangar would be a target, he was unarmed, and there was no time to get planes in the air, so he sought the only cover he could find: an eight-inch concrete gutter. He laid face down in the gutter, and stood up after the bombing stopped, unscratched except for his folding cloth cap, which had been pierced by a bit of shrapnel, (very) narrowly missing his head. Sadly, many of his crew who were working on the plane with him were less fortunate. None died, but many were injured.

Mel remembered Pearl Harbor every day for the rest of his life, I expect. He kept that old hat hanging on the wall at his nursing home right up until he died in March this year, at age 100.

 

This is my grandfather at the Battle of the Bulge, in the Hurtgen Forest in Germany. If you look closely, "Leapin Lena" is lettered below the windshield. I have no idea what it meant, but I sure wish he were still around to ask him!

 

Sadly, much of the damage in Honolulu was due to friendly fire - antiaircraft shells that weren't fused properly or fired at a low angle toward the torpedo planes.

Navy PBY Catalinas are burning on the ramp in the background, so this is either Ford Island or Kaneohe.

 

My Grandpa met Grandma while he was stationed in England during the war. They ended up getting married in her hometown - Arundel, West Sus***, England on April 13th, 1945. Grandpa was shipped back home and Grandma came to the U.S. on a ship shortly after. Talk about a leap of faith. She moved to a country she'd never been to, a LONG ways from home, and only knew one person here. They were married over 60 years.

 

There´s a Citroen 4 CV in wraymens fist pic.
War is hell, no matter which side you´re on. After all there are only losers. This is what my grandpa told me to p*** on to future generations.

 

My dad was in the US Navy during WWII, on the destroyer USS Gansevoort DD-608 serving in the Pacific. While he was not there during the attack, he was there about a year afterwards and there was still 2-3" of fuel and oil on the surface of the water. Most people (at least from the Midwest) did not know where Pearl Harbor was. He was very quiet about his experience which it took me a while to understand contrary to the old war movies: there is nothing pretty about war. God bless all who have served, serve, and will serve.

 

Nick,
Did she ever loose her accent?
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Sitting here reading as I watch the movie "They Were Expendable" Spent lots of time in Hawaii for work. Was able to visit and observe the various monuments to those gallant men and women of the WWII.

The Arizona, and the Punch Bowl were particularly moving. The cemeteries are quiet elegant monuments to those brave hero's that lost their lives in honor of their country. We owe so many so much, let us not ever forget those that died on that fateful day. If you by chance happen to meet a WW-2 survivor walk up snap a salute and shake their hand, and thank them for their service. We have no idea the horrors they went through and saw.

This is not politics, this is just the right thing to do.

br***carguy

 

Pearl Harbor....one of many!!!------

 

Never Forget.
My father and his two brothers served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII.
I'm currently reading a book about the B-24 Liberator squadrons in the South Pacific.
Freedom is not free.

 

Raven, Grandma never did lose her English accent. Here's a great photo of her and my dad, just a few weeks before she p***ed away (Sept. 2014).

 

I was born 40 years after the attack, however I have the utmost respect for W.W.II vets.
I shake hands and thank every W.W.II vet I meet.

Bud Moore W.W.II vet alot about his W.W. II service-

 

Here's a list of some actors who served in the military during or just after WWII. Most (all?) are gone now unfortunately. How many of today's actors have served? Not many....


Alan Hale - Jr. - US Coast Guard.
Aldo Ray . US Navy. UDT frogman- Okinawa .
Art Carney - US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach- D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life.
Brian Keith - US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.
Buddy Hackett - US Army anti-aircraft gunner.
Burgess Meredith - US Army Air Corps.
Clark Gable - US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe .
Cesar Romero - US Coast Guard. Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the ***ault transport USS Cavalier.
Charles Bronson - US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner- wounded in action.
Charles Durning - US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times, so awarded the Silver & Bronze & 3 Purple Hearts. Survived Malmedy M***acre.
Charlton Heston - US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25. Aleutians.
Chuck Connors - US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.
Claude Akins - US Army. Signal Corps. - Burma and the Philippines .
Clifton James - US Army- South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star- Bronze Star- and Purple Heart.
Dale Robertson - US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under General Patton’s command. Wounded twice. Battlefield Commission.
Danny Aiello - US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years.
DeForest Kelley - US Army Air Corps.
Dennis Weaver - US Navy. Pilot.
Denver Pyle - US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalc**** . Medically discharged.
Don Adams - US Marines. Wounded on Guadalc**** - then served as a Drill Instructor.
Don Knotts - US Army- Pacific Theater.
Don Rickles - US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.
Earl Holliman . US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged after a year when Navy found out.
Ed McMahon - US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)
Eddie Albert - US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V for saving several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa .
Efram Zimbalist Jr. - US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest .
Ernest Borgnine - US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c- destroyer USS Lamberton. 10 years active duty. Discharged 1941- re-enlisted after Pearl Harbor .
Fess Parker - US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being too tall- joined Marines as a radio operator.
Forrest Tucker - US Army. Enlisted as a private- rose to Lieutenant.
Frank Sutton - US Army. Took part in 14 ***ault landings- including Leyte- Luzon- Bataan and Corregidor .
Fred Gwynne - US Navy. Radioman.
Gene Autry - US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China- Burma-India Theater.
George Gobel - comedian, Army Air Corps, taught fighter pilots. Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, to which George said "the **** didn't get past us.”
George Kennedy - US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor - stayed in sixteen years.
Harry Carey Jr - US Navy.
Harry Dean Stanton - US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa .
Harvey Korman - US Navy.
Henry Fonda - US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.
Hugh O'Brian - US Marines.
Jack Klugman - US Army.
Jack Palance - US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber.
Jack Warden - US Navy- 1938-1942- then US Army- 1942-1945. 101st Airborne Division.
Jackie Coogan - US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines.
James Arness - US Army. As an infantryman- he was severely wounded at Anzio - Italy .
James Gregory - US Navy and US Marines.
James Stewart - US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General.
Jason Robards - US Navy. was aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalc**** . Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines - surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.
John Carroll - US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa . Broke his back in a crash.
John Wayne - Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries- (from playing football @ Southern Cal) - he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army- Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets ‘honorable mention’.
Jonathan Winters - USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner- Battle of Okinawa .
Karl Malden - US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force- NCO.
Kirk Douglas - US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged.
Larry Storch . US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.
Lee Marvin - US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan . Buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Lee Van Cleef - US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine sweeper.
Mel Brooks - US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.
Mickey Rooney - US Army under General Patton’s command. Bronze Star.
Mickey Spillane - US Army Air Corps - Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot.
Neville Brand - US Army- Europe. Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Norman Fell - US Army Air Corps.- Tail Gunner- Pacific Theater.
Pat Hingle - US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall
Paul Newman - US Navy Rear seat gunner/radsioman- torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill .
Peter Graves - US Army Air Corps.
Randolph Scott - Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, during World War I.
Robert Altman - US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.
Robert Mitchum - US Army.
Robert Montgomery - US Navy.
Robert Preston - US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer
Robert Ryan - US Marines.
Robert Stack - US Navy. Gunnery Officer.
Robert Taylor - US Navy. Instructor Pilot.
Rock Hudson - US Navy. Aircraft mechanic- the Philippines .
Rod Serling - US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila .
Rod Steiger - US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid.
Ronald Reagan - US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the war. His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came so he transferred to the Army Air Corps
Public Relations Unit where he served for the duration.
Russell Johnson - US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines .
Soupy Sales - US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.
(that’s the ship which transported Elvis Presley...who was a tank driver in the U S Army from 1957-1960...to Bremerhaven , Germany.
Sterling Hayden - US Marines and OSS . Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia
Steve Forrest - US Army. Wounded- Battle of the Bulge.
Steve Reeves - US Army - Philippines .
Ted Knight - US Army- Combat Engineers.
Telly Savalas - US Army.
Tom Bosley - US Navy.
Tony Curtis - US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan .
Tyrone Power - US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater.
Victor Mature - US Coast Guard.
Walter Matthau - US Army Air Corps. B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.
Wayne Morris - US Navy fighter pilot- USS Es*** . Downed seven Japanese fighters.
Wiliam Holden - US Army Air Corps.
William Conrad - US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.

And of course we have Audie Murphy, America 's most-decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being awarded the Medal of Honor.