pearl harbor day

[Danzig]

71st anniversary.

the u.s. presumed there would be a japanese attack, but not at pearl. japan surprised everyone, and 'woke a sleeping giant'.

[bigrun]

Remember Pearl Harbor..

http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/songnew.html

http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html

[Danzig]

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

[cal828]

My grandson Jack's birthday. 11 years old today. Even I can't forget this one.

[dellinger63]

I fear if it were repeated today we'd broker a deal to pay Japan not to do it again.

Or wait for direction from the UN?

[jms62]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I fear if it were repeated today we'd broker a deal to pay Japan not to do it again.

Or wait for direction from the UN?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uC5INH5n4

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uC5INH5n4

..Poifeck

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uC5INH5n4

Or maybe we'd follow the path set when our sovereign ground in Libya was attacked and jail the relatives of the guy who made Godzilla.

We gone from waking a giant to waking a giant pussey.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uC5INH5n4

[Danzig]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI[9][10] by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning)[11] and the Battle of Pearl Harbor[12]) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.
The base was attacked by 353[13] Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers.[13] All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. Of these eight damaged, two were raised, and with four repaired, six battleships returned to service later in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship,[nb 4] and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed[15] and 1,282 wounded. Important base installations such as the power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 65 servicemen killed or wounded. One Japanese sailor was captured.

The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters. The following day (December 8), the United States declared war on Japan. Domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been strong,[16] disappeared. Clandestine support of Britain (for example the Neutrality Patrol) was replaced by active alliance. Subsequent operations by the U.S. prompted Germany and Italy to declare war on the U.S. on December 11, which was reciprocated by the U.S. the same day.

There were numerous historical precedents for unannounced military action by Japan. However, the lack of any formal warning, particularly while negotiations were still apparently ongoing, led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy".

two huge mistakes made, one by japan, one by germany.

japan intended to keep us out of the pacific while it took over territories, but they failed to take into account just how quickly we could repair or replace the ships that were hit (they also failed to find and destroy the entire fleet).
the other mistake was germany declaring war on us a couple days later. it was one of many mistakes (not destroying the french and british at dunkirk, invading the soviet union, not finishing off the british, thus leaving the u.k. as a staging point for our invasion at normandy, etc, etc) made by hitler, whose blundering was a larger detriment to his military than their opponents would prove to be.

[bigrun]

Couple of good movies on Pearl Harbor and Midway (considered the turning point in the pacific war.) Pearl movie is 2004, there was another made years ago but can't remember it...Midway is an oldie 1976 with all the big time actors of that era..and much better movie than Pearl, imo..


Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American war film that mixes action and romantic drama elements, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King and Jennifer Garner.


Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid. Some special prints were made from the color negatives using the recently re-introduced Technicolor dye imbibition printing process. Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor became a major box office success, earning $449,220,945 at the world wide box office[2] and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.

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Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway and in the US on video as The Battle of Midway,[2] is a 1976 Technicolor war film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford.[3][4] The music score was by John Williams and the cinematography by Harry Stradling, Jr. The film features an international cast of superstars including Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirō Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, James Shigeta, Pat Morita, Robert Ito and Christina Kokubo, among others.

The soundtrack used Sensurround to augment the physical sensation of engine noise, explosions, crashes and gunfire.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Couple of good movies on Pearl Harbor and Midway (considered the turning point in the pacific war.) Pearl movie is 2004, there was another made years ago but can't remember it...Midway is an oldie 1976 with all the big time actors of that era..and much better movie than Pearl, imo..


Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American war film that mixes action and romantic drama elements, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King and Jennifer Garner.


Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid. Some special prints were made from the color negatives using the recently re-introduced Technicolor dye imbibition printing process. Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor became a major box office success, earning $449,220,945 at the world wide box office[2] and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.

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Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway and in the US on video as The Battle of Midway,[2] is a 1976 Technicolor war film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford.[3][4] The music score was by John Williams and the cinematography by Harry Stradling, Jr. The film features an international cast of superstars including Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirō Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, James Shigeta, Pat Morita, Robert Ito and Christina Kokubo, among others.

The soundtrack used Sensurround to augment the physical sensation of engine noise, explosions, crashes and gunfire.

The other movie you were thinking of about Pearl Harbor might be Tora Tora Tora? One of my favorites was From Here to Eternity. Course Pearl Harbor was a bit in the background of that movie.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by cal828

The other movie you were thinking of about Pearl Harbor might be Tora Tora Tora? One of my favorites was From Here to Eternity. Course Pearl Harbor was a bit in the background of that movie.

Yep, that's it...Yamamoto's quote is used...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ) is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatises the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore and Jason Robards. The film uses Isoroku Yamamoto's famous quote, saying the attacks would only serve to "... awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve", although it may have been apocryphal. The title is the Japanese code-word used to indicate that complete surprise was achieved. It literally means "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger".


From here to eternity beach kiss scene...all us old farts remember that scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6AGM-LxGY

[cal828]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Yep, that's it...Yamamoto's quote is used...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ) is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatises the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore and Jason Robards. The film uses Isoroku Yamamoto's famous quote, saying the attacks would only serve to "... awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve", although it may have been apocryphal. The title is the Japanese code-word used to indicate that complete surprise was achieved. It literally means "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger".


From here to eternity beach kiss scene...all us old farts remember that scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6AGM-LxGY

I've always thought that the way to tell whether a movie is really good one or not is by how many scenes you can remember and I can remember a lot of scenes in From Here to Eternity. The kiss while the surf is rolling in was just one. The most famous to be sure.