Pearl Harbor Day—2016
 

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• The first shots were fired by Americans. :cool: Pearl Harbor's Ford Island Navy fleet wasn't the only target on Oahu.

• That one downed Japanese pilot was harbored by Hawaiian citizens led to FDR's ordering Internments! :eek2: (Internments opposed by the FBI's Director, J. Edgar Hoover).

• At the time, my Tuftonboro Dad was training the Navy's PBY patrol-bomber pilots in Jacksonville, FL. His eventual PBY squadron (VP-11) was destroyed or sunk at moorings. :mad:

• His rank on December 7th? "Cadet". :eek:


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If you ever get a chance to visit the Arizona Memorial in pearl harbor, it is a very sobering experience.