So, today is Pearl Harbor Day- "A day that will live on in Infamy" This was a long time ago indeed. As persons who like old cars we realise the extreme age of these rides. Just for fun how old were your cars in 1941? My 40 Ford was 1yr. My model A was 10 years and My 32 Ford was 9 years old. The guys and gals who were service people in this era surely drove cars of this and similar vintages. Makes me want to preserve them even more. Not necessarily restored but alive none the less.
My Plymouth was 1, my Model T was 17, and my Apache was -18 yrs old. Makes me want to preserve them even more as well. Thanks to the brave men and women who fought (and continue to fight) for our right to be free allows us to do what we do. Thank you for the sacrifices, what a great country to live in.
Let him slide. he's on a roll. Funny, well not really, I work at my local veterans hospital and there was no mention of ANYTHING planned. Guess I'll have to step up.
Yes, Dec 7th 1941 is Pearl Harbor day. For the sake of the post, my 1937 Ford Ute and 1937 Chevy Ute were just 4 years old (in Australia at the time). My 1938 Chevy sedan was 3 years. Rest of my old cars and trucks were not built yet: 1949 Ford COE, 1953 GMC, 1955 Studebaker coupe, and my non-HAMB 68 GTO.
As already was mentioned, Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941. Both my coupe and my pickup were 1 year old and I was 4 months old.
70 yrs.....won't be long until they'll be discussing the "last" of them boys....last combat soldier from WWII, last PH survivor.....ad infinitum. I was a small boy when the last verified Civil War soldier p***ed on. I think he was a young man when he joined - a drummer at first, and then the war ended. My dad died a few years ago, he served (P-51 and P-47 pilot) in Germany, my first wife's dad was a B-17 driver and he just died a couple of years ago. Both were just 'kids' when they went in, and as always happens in wartime, were men in very short order. Saw in the local paper where the USN allows you to have your ash urn put into a porthole of either the Arizona or the Utah (only sunken ships still extant) if you actually served on either vessel. Diver does it for the family. If you study any part of that horrific worldwide conflict, those guys truly were the "greatest generation". RIP fellahs, we'll be along soon ourselves. dj Capt USAF 606th ACS
My Stove-bolt was 1 year old. My dad joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor, he's been gone around 5 years now.
Henrietta the '38 Ford pickup was 3, Ozelle the '55 Ford had been built yet, and I (a '52) had not been born yet My father was a US Army vet of WWII, Second Armored Division. He enlisted in '37, had already been in the Army 4 years when the war started and served the duration of the war. He was 83 when he died in 2002.
I was surprised at how long it took the morning news to remind us of this date and the event this morning. According to the news, this will be the last year for a reunion of the survivors of the Pearl Harbor bombing. Not many left and too old to travel. I was not born yet but as a baby I have food ration stamps in my name before we won the war in '45. I've always been fascinated by that war. I grew up watching Victory at Sea on Sat mornings and building models of all the war machinery. I don't have that many years left but I will always remember.... I believe that there are a lot of guys on the HAMB that feel the same way.
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