83 years ago today

#6
My Dad was stationed at Hickam Field with the 11th Bombardment Group B-17's told it was a bad Sunday for breakfast.
Then he went on to serve in the South Pacific , pic is of my Dad on the ladder servicing his B-17 he was the crew chief.


Later the demise of the YDJ
https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-9227.html
My told me me he would never fly in aircraft he didn't preflight and fortunately he wasn't part of the crew that day.
 
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#8
A day to remember, those who were lost and injured.......... I salute

Also, two years ago today,one of the bestest days of my life........A redheaded,blue eyed grandson was born.....Happy Birthday" Buddy Bear "

Also one mo time......Happy Birthday to my 76 yr old "shootin buddy "........ Benny. May we have many more years smashing primers,burning powder and sending bullets into the wind together.
 
#13
My father-in-law, Charley, was PFC in the 9th USAAF 410 Light Bomber Group 646th Squadron and served in Europe, starting out in France and then moving east. He worked in the mess hall.

Because he could understand and speak German (family heritage,) he was in charge of giving german POWs assignments around the base. It might be latrine duty or other clean-up. One of them made him a plaster-of-paris ashtray.

Many of the captured soldiers were really young. Mid to late teens and just as scared as anyone else, answering the call of their country.
 
#14
We could thank our "friends" the British who almost certainly knew about the impending attack for "forgetting to let us know about it"...

That and well there was some tensions between the USA and Japan and this embargo and blockade stuff...

And several governments were looking for a way to get the USA back into a war for various reasons...
 
#18
Some German POW were allowed liberty to leave their camps and go into town. Some stayed after the war and settled in those towns.

None of them raped, murdered and got DWI's like Biden / Harris invaders.
 
#19
My uncle was a Submariner and out hunting Japs on December 7th. He was off Japan on at least his 12th combat tour when the war ended. He left the Navy in the late 40s when a trainee Lt submerged the boat with hatches open. He decided to stop pushing his luck.

My Dad was a paratrooper who jumped D-day and Holland. He always considered it safer than subs.
 
#21
He was a hero.

My Grandfather served on the Arizona from 1936 through October, 1940 and was then honorably discharged from the Navy. After the bombing, he joined the Marines and served in the Pacific.
 
#23
Who does these tasks, what generation, where are we now? Those who responded to all the aggressions against America, Thank you. Brings tears to my eyes. I hope that future generations will know the sacrifices.
 
#26
A gentlemen from my hometown is still on the Arizona, he was killed on Dec 7, he lived just around the corner from where I live now. RIP Fredrick Owen
 
#27
Amazon has it , just ordered it.
" A day that will live in infamy" was also the the day that kick started the U.S. into becoming the greatest country and the start of the greatest generation. Never forget December 7th. We owe so many from then for what we have now.
 
#28
My parents were part of the Greatest Generation; my dad, a Marine that fought in the Pacific and my mom, part of the Women's Auxilery Corps.

That generation, after the war when they came home to become doctors, business men, judges, housewives, fucking hated Japs. A teacher friend of my mom confessed years later he still "couldn't stand to be in the same room with one."

One of my mom's friends was an Australian nurse captured by the Japs and the cruelty she and other nurses endured was unspeakable. Fuck them.
 
#32
"churchill,hitler and the unnecessary war"-buchan. try to find anything in it that isn't verifiable elsewhere. technique still in use. F with your enemies/competitors long enough,hard enough and you can get them in a corner where they think they have to attack you. worked in ukraine.
 
#33
my father was on cruiser huston,sunk 3/1/42. was a jap POW til some time in '44. he never hated the japs at all. differnt from a lot of vets. not sure why. we knew several and he was always polite and friendly with them. he had a serious hard on for the dutch,however.
 
#34


The German POWs who chose to stay in the USA after the war all became some of the MOST patriotic Americans ever, on par with the Vietnamese who came after them. They had been subjected to horrific propaganda campaigns before and especially during their military service where Americans and Allies were portrayed as eldritch boogeymen. But after being captured by US forces and brought here to Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and other locations, they were completely in awe at the utter ridiculousness of what they had been told by the political commissars in the Wehrmacht. Sometimes, the best way to undo even a lifetime of brainwashing is by letting one just experience a 'trial period' of living in the supposed 'enemy land'. Hence why many countries of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War were so hesitant to allow students, tourists, and diplomats to the USA, because they were afraid that many of them will refuse to go back home and that certainly was true with A LOT of them. The parents of Oleg Volk, founder of The High Road Inc. and one of the most ardent RKBA activists in our ranks, were able to come to the USA during a cultural exchange "tour" program and immediately applied for and were granted asylum from having to return to communist Lithuania, then under Soviet dominion.

ETA: "Trial periods" AKA "take a liberal to the range" does NOT apply to the modern leftist fuckstains though. These parasites live here, and yet they still have chosen to embrace ideologies that revolve around terrorism and murder.
 
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#35

I believe some POW's were allowed to go on work release and had jobs in the nearby towns.

I knew an old German that had been drafted into the Hitler Youth organization as a boy but somehow managed to defect, finally making his way to the U.S.

He always had a merry, good natured attitude, retained a thick accent and opened a bakery.

Making a sick joke, we referred to him as 'The Baker', not to his face, and said he ran the ovens at Auschwitz and was hiding out in the U.S.
 
#37


They must also have good stories about working with the Navajo radiomen in the SOE units whose language was the ONLY "code" that the IJA was never able to translate or even begin to tackle. Once that was known, important intel about bomber flights and troop movements were simply relayed as they were across the airwaves in Navajo right over the enemy's heads and they couldn't do a thing about it.
 
#38
In so many words, that is the experience my FIL had taking care of German POWs in the 646th Squadron. Most of them had to be less than 19, some younger, scared but answering the call of their country to defend itself, regardless of the leadership.

But SS were scary monsters, for sure. And wearing Hugo Voss uniforms. To quote Ken Jeong, "Gay!"
 
#39
The SS did in fact have a social club that openly practiced gay activities. Ironic, since one of the groups they considered undesirable and rounded up for extermination were homo's.
 
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