Pearl Harbor: 79 years ago today but everyday nowadays

[stealurface831]

I don't mean to be some sort of flag-waving idiot but rather someone who enjoys history and thinks it is absurd that this was a year shy of four scores ago.

There is also this: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/12/i...y-opinion.html

The death toll of the second-deadliest attack on american soil is surpassed each day by the newest single-day death toll from COVID and yet it seems we stand idly.

[summit]

In just 90 minutes Imperial Japan inflicted 3581 US casualties with 19 ships and 349 planes damaged or destroyed.

Japan also attacked the US at Guam, Wake, and the Philippines over the next few hours.

For the US, 420K dead and 672K wounded in the resulting war, meaning almost 1% of the US population were casualties.
Over 12% of the population served in the war and 7 of my relatives served.
I have my grandfather's 48 star flag. I put it out this morning.

[stealurface831]

For the US, 420K dead and 672K wounded in the resulting war.
7 family members served.
I have my grandfather's 48 star flag. I put it out this morning.

hell yeah, summit.

[jackstraw]

My dad was 16 yrs old and both of his parents were dead already. He was so pissed off as were all of his friends. He tried to join instantly and was denied for two years (thankfully from my perspective!). Ended up in Okinawa after we had already taken the island (again, thankfully). Then we dropped the bombs and it was over. He never really saw any action which was a blessing. War sucks.

[Dantheman]

I don't mean to be some sort of flag-waving idiot but rather someone who enjoys history and thinks it is absurd that this was a year shy of four scores ago.

There is also this: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/12/i...y-opinion.html

The death toll of the second-deadliest attack on american soil is surpassed each day by the newest single-day death toll from COVID and yet it seems we stand idly.

If you're into the history, check out the latest Hardcore History series about the Pacific theater (Supernova in the East). Like all HH it's super rad. Lots of stuff about the rise of imperial Japan, their occupation of China, and everything else that went on in the Pacific pre-Pearl Harbor that is never discussed here.

[stealurface831]

If you're into the history, check out the latest Hardcore History series about the Pacific theater (Supernova in the East). Like all HH it's super rad. Lots of stuff about the rise of imperial Japan, their occupation of China, and everything else that went on in the Pacific pre-Pearl Harbor that is never discussed here.

i'll definitely check that out. thanks for the rec.

it seems that history has forgotten that hirohito's reign was every bit as bad as, if not worse than, hitler's regime. the japanese murdered twice as many.

[LeeLau]

If you're into the history, check out the latest Hardcore History series about the Pacific theater (Supernova in the East). Like all HH it's super rad. Lots of stuff about the rise of imperial Japan, their occupation of China, and everything else that went on in the Pacific pre-Pearl Harbor that is never discussed here.

Thanks. I'll do that. Both my Dad and Mum were kids during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. They basically starved

[XXX-er]

My grandfather was dissappeared when Singapore was occupied, he was American and too white

Both my parents came of age in war zones, it was tough on them

[jackstraw]

i'll definitely check that out. thanks for the rec.

it seems that history has forgotten that hirohito's reign was every bit as bad as, if not worse than, hitler's regime. the japanese murdered twice as many.

I haven't read much about him, but his legacy is clearly controversial. Some state he was just a figurehead.

[bagtagley]

If you're into the history, check out the latest Hardcore History series about the Pacific theater (Supernova in the East). Like all HH it's super rad. Lots of stuff about the rise of imperial Japan, their occupation of China, and everything else that went on in the Pacific pre-Pearl Harbor that is never discussed here.

I like to follow Dan around with the disclaimer that you need to really be into history and have the ability to focus for the couple of hours each episode entails because missing a few seconds is enough to fuck up the next several hours.

I love HH, BTW.

[summit]

I can recommend some awesome books on the Pacific War:

Freedom From Fear (more 1930-1945 worldwide)
At Dawn We Slept
Neptunes Inferno
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
The Fleet at Flood Tide
Miracle at Midway
Thunder Below
The Big E
Stillwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
With the Old Breed
Helmet for My Pillow
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Downfall: The End of Imperial Japanese Empire
A War to Be Won (great book, covers all fronts)

From the Japanese POV:
Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Shattered Sword (pretty technical at times, read after MIracle)
Japanese Destroyer Captain
Samurai!
Hiroshima

https://www.combinedfleet.com

[TBS]

Trump failed to Pearl Harbor yesterday.
Too fucking busy I guess bloviating about stolen elections

Very sad.

[TBS]

My dad was a combat engineer on an attack transport ship in the Pacific. He got to go ashore first and clear beaches so the marines could safely come in. “No marine ever landed on a beach wasn’t a sailor there to shake his hand”

He was at Nagasaki two weeks after the bomb. I once asked him what it was like. He shuddered, said “you don’t want to know” and got a thousand yard stare.

[Cono Este]

Pearl Harbor: 79 years ago today but everyday nowadays

Trump failed to Pearl Harbor yesterday.
Too fucking busy I guess bloviating about stolen elections

Very sad.

Thats complete horse shit. A-hole.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-2020/

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[JimmyCarter]

I like to follow Dan around with the disclaimer that you need to really be into history and have the ability to focus for the couple of hours each episode entails because missing a few seconds is enough to fuck up the next several hours.

I love HH, BTW.

Focus is key. I spent too long pondering his pronunciation of Jane-gis Khan and missed the conquering of half of China.