Via White House – “On December 7, 1941, a peaceful Sunday morning on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was shattered by an unprovoked attack by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the aircraft and hangars at Kaneohe, Ford Island, Barbers Point, and Hickam Field. The surprise offensive claimed the lives of 2,403 American service members and civilians and propelled our Nation into the Second World War.
The Japanese mission was designed to cripple our military assets and obliterate the American spirit, but instead, the fatal attacks rallied our shattered citizenry and fueled our resolve. Young men from every corner of our country put their lives and futures on hold and were thrust into bloody and brutal battles of historic consequence that would forever change the world. Although untested in battle, these patriots, still reeling from horror and disbelief, united in a singular mission: to defeat tyranny. The exceptional courage and immeasurable sacrifices of the Greatest Generation secured our way of life and the blessings of freedom for future generations.”
“In the decades since the “date which will live in infamy,” the aggressor has become our loyal ally and trusted friend. Japan is one of our closest security partnerships, and our military forces work together every day to defend our common interests. We are united by commerce, history, culture, and mutual respect. Our strong alliance is a testament to the transformational power of peace, diplomacy, and democracy.
The lessons learned 84 years ago on that fateful day still resound with America’s exceptional fighting force. We must remain ever vigilant and prepared to annihilate any foe who dares to threaten our liberty. This annual day of remembrance must be held in the highest esteem and reverence as we honor the Americans who laid down their lives to defend our homeland on the island of Oahu and in the battles of World War II.
The Congress, by Public Law 103-308, as amended, has designated December 7 of each year as “National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim December 7, 2025, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. I encourage all Americans to observe this solemn day and to honor our military, past and present, with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I urge all Federal agencies and interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff in honor of those American patriots who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.”
Pearl Harbor is truly a day to be remembered.
Order, sir, not urge.
He cannot order “interested organizations, groups, and individuals.” A Federal agency already understands that a Presidential urging is an order.
“We must remain ever vigilant and prepared to annihilate any foe who dares to threaten our liberty.”
Foreign or domestic?
Yes, mostly domestic.
The ‘rat party
Notice he did not specify.
Then it was foriegn attacking us on our own soil.
Today is is within us, intermingled among us in our children, our families, our work places. And our government currently is mostly our enemy — unless we can bring the traitors and brainwashed back in line with our Constitution.
More importantly, unless we can bring the gospel of our Creator as Savior and Lord in such away that we as individuals are submitted in faith and love to the will of our Creator.
“We have a Republic, sir — if you can keep it”.
Fifty-four years ago, I swore an oath to protect against ALL enemies, foreign or domestic, so help me God. I was “prepared to annihilate” them then, and I still stand ready to do it now!
BLESSINGS on you, Old Dawg!
BLESSINGS
Thank you, Sundance, for commemorating “the day that will live in Infamy.” Pearl Harbor seems to have faded off the collective minds of America. Again, thank you for the remembrance.
The effect of government indoctrination centers, our schools. Time does set a distance…esp. when the voices of that history, have been silenced by the passing of time (their deaths)…
It’s too bad that Sunday, 7 February, 1932 became the “The Day that will live in Amnesia.” What happened on that Sunday, you may ask? That was the day the combined Army/Navy two-sided exercise (defenders and attackers) took place on Oahu (read all about it in the Hawaii newspapers); the morning a large carrier-based strike force of planes, under a cover of low, thick clouds, swept in from the north without detection and successfully surprise attacked Pearl Harbor and other Oahu installations. As Gen. Billy Mitchell stated, “If the President [Roosevelt] can be made to see that the trouble will start with Japan, perhaps we’ll have more planes in the Philippines and Hawaii. For years he’s had the idea that a war in the Far East would be impracticable and that an attack upon us by Japan is inconceivable. That’s Navy thinking. The Japanese will not publicly declare war. Hawaii, for instance, is vulnerable from the air. It is wide open to Japan…and Hawaii is swarming with Japanese spies. As I have said before, that’s where the blow will be struck — on a fine Sunday morning.” Also of interest, Admiral Yamamoto, who planned and executed the Dec 7th attack, was a naval attache in DC and rising in the ranks returned to the US Naval War College during the 1920s. Upon returning to Japan, Yamamoto altered his naval warfighting emphasis from surface gunnery to aerial bombardment. Yamamoto was fluent in English and no doubt was fully aware of the tactics used during the 1932 US Army/Navy exercise in Hawaii.
whew! I knew about Billy Mitchell but I didn’t know that quote
there is also the story of the British spy that Ian Fleming used to model James Bond who upon arriving in USA warned that the British raid at Taranto, Italy was a model for the Japanese to use against us
Q: knowing all that we know now … is it really too hard to believe that U.S. High Officials knew what was coming?, and wanted, needed it to come? Is it really too hard to believe that Short and Kimmel were set up to fail?
Q2: where and how did FDR receive news of the attack? How come no one has ever asked that question? Recall in the movie, “Tora…” George Marshall had to be chased down at the golf course. The book, “Day of Deceit” is not crazy.
I grew up hearing many stories from old-timers how FDR sold out Eastern Europe to Stalin. Later, I discovered Diana West’s book, “American Betrayal” put meat on those stories, as well as, M. Stanton Evans, “Blacklisted by History” about 1950’s Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy who was vindicated by the USSR’s release of the Venona Papers in the 1990’s – but we never hear about that!
Methinx the assassinations of the 1960’s was mere continuation by traitors to sabotage America, and it continues – we’ve been in a long war …
It seems America has a longer memory for Pearl Harbor than 9/11. We had Hollywood making movies and even Democrats and schools backing America back then. I was born long after WW2, my 20+ year old children were born long, long after WW2, yet they are well aware of that attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet ask many kids born after 9/11 and they don’t know what 9/11 was about, never even heard about it. They have a very remedial understanding of WW2 (mostly because “Nazi” seems to be Democrats only enemy). Our govt, Hollywood, Democrats, and money grubbing RINOs whitewashed 9/11 and allowed millions of those Muslim supremacists to invade our country ever since.
You are so right on the ‘whitewashing’ of 9/11.
FDR and crew knew,they allowed it to happen,hope they are burning in hell.
Was waiting for someone to bring this point up. Surprised Sundance did not.
Excuse my un-political correctness. A story can only be told if all of the facts are presented and put on the table, otherwise history is only a distortion, a perversion of the Facts. WW1-WW2 were bankers wars killing millions of Europeans paving the way for re-population of low IQ peoples. The General that accepted Japans unconditional surrender was not to happy about the wording he was told to use when addressing the Emperor. How long has this compromise to Nation States been played ?
Pearl Harbor got the war warning like every other military base in the Pacific. Group think in the military held that the Japanese would be occupied further West in the Philippines and lacked the military assets to attack PH too. They did make one change after the war warning which was to neatly line up all the planes in tight groups to protect them about saboteurs which was exactly the wrong thing to do about an air attack. The military had no clue where the Japanese carriers were until the inbound planes were spotted by radar. That report was blown off by an untrained LT in his second day on the job.
The radio operator of the American liner Mariposa intercepted repeated signals from the Japanese fleet steaming toward Hawaii and relayed its progressive bearings to the Navy. This was well-known during the war to American seamen of the Pacific merchant marine and is mentioned in published accounts.
On 22 November 1941, a week after the Japanese fleet began to assemble and four days before it sailed for Oahu, Admiral Ingersoll issued a ‘Vacant Sea’ order that cleared its path of all shipping and on 25 November he ordered Kimmel to withdraw his ships patrolling the area from which the aerial attack would be staged [144-145]. FDR kept close tabs on the plot’s final unfolding while radio intercepts continued to track its voyage toward Hawaii [161-176]. References from documents found at the National Archives in Belmont, CA and documents obtained via FIA requests.
A Second World War Navy radioman turned journalist, Robert Stinnett was in the National Archives in Belmont, California, researching a campaign-year picture book on George Bush’s South Pacific wartime navy career in aerial reconnaissance — George Bush: His World War II Years (Washington, D.C., Brassey’s, 1992) — and encountered unindexed duplicate copies of Pearl Harbor radio intercept records of Japanese Navy code transmissions — documentary evidence of what actually happened at Pearl Harbor and how it came about. After eight years of further research and a prolonged case at law under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain partial release of these materials, Stinnett published ‘Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor’ (2000).
Sadly, most people are not aware that FDR systematically provoked the Japanese with increasingly restrictive trade sanctions, in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor. The final straw was when FDR banned all oil sales to Japan, basically an act of war.
FDR wanted the US to be involved in WW2 and he did everything he could to ensure it happened.
I once had a boss who was a junior naval officer in the first ship to exit Pearl Harbor (completely unscratched) into the open Pacific. Most of my co-workers wished that the Japanese had sunk his ship instead of concentrating on the battleship right behind his ship.
He fired many using the old trick of having another officer (supervisor) present to witness him provoking an enlisted man he didn’t like (but in a private company!). He tried that same trick to try and fire me, but it didn’t work, as I stayed very calm, which just infuriated him even more, such that he lost it and stormed off.
He retired shortly thereafter. The general manager had to order all the other supervisors ⅞to attend his retirement party after work!
I have visited the Pearl Harbor memorial. I was struck by the number of Japanese also visiting the memorial too. These Japanese were very surprised when they discovered their young white American male tour guide spoke to them in perfect Japanese and peppered him with numerous questions about Pearl Harbor.
Re: “The final straw was when FDR banned all oil sales to Japan, basically an act of war.”
Nonsense. The U.S. was then under no obligation to sell oil to Japan, not one drop. Japan indeed found the act provocative, but only because they had painted themselves into a corner by outraging the world against them with their invasion of China and the subsequent atrocities they committed once there. Such as the infamous Rape of Nanking, which cost around half a million Chinese lives, the majority of whom were civilians.
Around that same time, Japanese military aircraft sank the U.S.S. Panay, a U.S. Navy gunboat – despite the fact that we were a neutral power between Japan and China. War very neartly broke out then, but Japan issued a pro forma apology and paid monetary damages and conflict was averted.
Few Americans know that Imperial Japan had been, by the 1930s, war-gaming for more than two decade’s time with the U.S. as its presumptive opponent.
It is tragic that war between Japan and the U.S. happened, but to pretend that the U.S. was responsible for it when it finally happened is ahistorical nonsense. We have General Tojo and the other militarists in the Japanese military dictatorship to thank for that.
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All good points.
What made FDR’S oil ban “an act of war” from Japan’s view point was Venezuela, British, and Dutch, also stopped oil exports to Japan, a nearly 100% cut off of oil to Japan. Japan then quickly started the Pacific war as a result to gain the Dutch oil fields by force.
At the time many Americans didn’t want to get involved in another banker’s war, like WW1, but were deceived by FDR supporting the bankers, not the American people.
As for gaming the US, that started in my view, when Admiral Perry first visited Japan, and was roughed up, on purpose, by an ordinary Japanese sailor.
I remember having a discussion with my father about 25 years agio, and I said FDR knew about it and let it happen so we could go to war with Japan.
My great aunt didn’t know FDR was on a wheelchair.
You know the real history , that’s not taught in schools any longer. We might act as a team if we knew the real history. Some countries still teach their history, one such one we call the”Bear”..
My dad and uncle carried metal from Pearl Harbor, that date is etche,d in my soul.
absolutely..a globalist and banker fellow traveller.
Kinda like the emperor was desperately calling Washington after Hiroshima. Trying to call it a day.
To bad the phone was off the hook.
One of my dear friends was a woman who used to go to the canteens to dance with military personnel on leave during WWII in LA when she was a young woman. She stated a sailor she’d danced with told her he’d been on board one of the ships under attack at Pearl Harbor. She stated he reported that he and some of his shipmates were held at gunpoint to prevent them from accessing ammunition from locked storage supplies during the battle. Because of this she always felt that FDR had let this devastating attack happen on purpose, and she despised him for this the rest of her life.
May all of our heroes who were there to defend our country during this attack never be forgotten. We will always honor them on this sad day in American history, and they will always be in our hearts, along with all the innocent civilians who were murdered in cold blood. RIP.
re the ammo, that’s a scene from ” from here to eternity “.
There is little historical doubt that FDR provoked Japan to aggression in a variety of ways – such as instituting an oil sales embargo upon the Japanese when they depended on eighty percent of their domestic oil needs coming from U.S. imports. We also know that FDR and Churchill had met while the U.S. was still “neutral” and discussed plans for “when the U.S. entered the war”… not the absence of the word “if.”
That said…
No amount of historical revisionism can white-wash away the aggression and enormity of the crimes of the Imperial Japanese Empire.
Japan had brutally occupied Korea since 1895. They had waged war upon China since the 1920s, invading and occupying Manchuria in 1931, and widened the war with China again in 1937. In Dec. 1937-Jan. 1938, Japanese forces committed the “forgotten Holocaust” of Rape of Nanking in which an estimated 400,000 civilians were slaughtered. Japanese bombers leveled cities such as Shanghai, killing civilians and soldiers alike. The Japanese Army committed gruesome medical-scientific experiments on Chinese civilians and once the war began, on captured allied flyers. The Bataan Death March is a matter of historical record. There are even cases of Japanese military personnel killing and eating POWs, in other words committing acts of cannibalism.
The Anglo-American Allies may have entered the War in the Pacific under somewhat ambiguous circumstances, but that in no way changes the fact that the tyrannical military regime then ruling Japan had to be beaten and destroyed. Who else was going to deal with them? Certainly not the Soviets, who’d signed a non-aggression pact with Japan. There was no one else other than the combined allied forces in the Pacific region, the U.S., Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the Dutch.
Japan has reverted back to what she has been for most of her long history, a civilized and peaceful nation…. and thank heavens for that. But the militaristic and aggressive regime then in power had to be defeated. And the U.S. was the only nation capable of doing so, because only the U.S. had to ability to project power on a global scale. Not even Britain and the USSR, as impressive as their war-time feats may have been – could have done so.
Breaking News
Hawaiian judge overrules Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Rules that Pearl Harbor attack be memory holed and that the day Dec 7 be stricken from the calendar
Your forgot the /s.
The judge has ruled. Let the judge enforce it!
For me, the only draw to Hawaii was the Arizona Memorial. I went early enough to shake the hands of some Pearl Harbor survivors. Such a historical place, with historical documents from both sides of this horrible conflict.
I spent a week there. We walked Diamond Head and toured the sights. By the end of the week, I was ready to go home. Decent place to visit, too dang long to fly to for me.
On Pearl Harbor Day 12/7/1941 Americans were minding their business – BOOM – the Imperialist Japanese attacked us … repeatedly hit us to destroy as many ships & kill as many sailors and Americans as possible … no liberal/democrat whined about the Japanese not trying to save the “survivors”. 5 years later, we defeated the Imperialist Japanese AND Nazis, on 2 different Continents.
During Obama’s 8 years of evil he droned many Muslims, terrorists, Afghans, civilians & children … no liberal/democrat whined about Obama not trying to save survivors.
Biden then abandoned $7BILLION in military equipment, facilities & an airport, to the terrorists and Muslims, who continue to use those AMERICAN weapons to murder Americans … no liberal/democrat whined about Obama not trying to save Americans.
Now … President Trump is taking out terrorist drug boats, driven by muslim terrorists, loaded with deadly drugs, addicting and killing Americans … and … the liberals and democrats are SQUEALING about Trump not saving survivors.
Question:
If saving Muslim drug running terrorists is so important – maybe for strategic information – then, when Obama invaded the binLaden complex, full of woman and children, did we not “save” binLaden after the “1st shot” wasn’t a “kill” shot ?? … quoting the liberal/democrats think of the valuable info we could have extracted from that Muslim murdering devil.
Easy answer … it wasn’t President Trump.
Actually less than 4 years later!
FYI,
We gave the Afghani’s 7 Billion in military equipment which they abandoned.
We abandoned all of our assets which well exceeded 10x what the Afghani’s abandoned. (The number shifts)
There has been a strong campaign to hide what we abandoned by conflating it with what the Afghans abandoned.
All to protect the Sippy Cup’s Auto Pen! FJB.
Obama only droned his friends so they couldn’t be interrogated.
Including bin Laden.
Talk about illegal orders. Heard OBL was killed in captivity.
Without a doubt, our visit to Pearl Harbor was the best part of our trip years ago! For me, it was an overwhelming feeling to see the oil/fuel from the Arizona still leaking to the surface, knowing that, just below my feet, it, and those souls on board, lay just as they did when it sank.
It becomes very real and incredibly humbling. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Heartbreaking, still 💔.
It is a long flight..no doubt about it. If you’re going to fly to Oahu and you are in the middle of the country, fly in to Vegas. Then the flight from Vegas to Oahu is just shy of 6 hours. If you’re on the east coast, I would definitely break it up into 2 days. Well worth the trip to visit Pearl Harbor.
My Dad who served with MacArthur in the Philippines in WW2 said that most GI’s came to believe two things. That Pearl Harbor was set up as a sacrifice to get us in the war but that we believed that the Japanese would have been honorable and given a war declaration before attacking so the surprise attack was indeed a real surprise and that the dropping of the atomic bombs was justified to end the war. Other than that, he never wanted to talk about his war experiences. It was like a closed chapter in his life.
My wife’s stepfather was the same way about his navy experiences at Pearl Harbor.
He did admit that he got two battleships blown out from under him that morning.
After that, he would not talk about it except to say it was a horrible experience.
Needless to say, fifty years later he was still jumpy.
Pappy served with Mac too. He was a medic in the 534th Engineer Boat & Shore Regiment, part of General Douglas MacArthur’s Seahorse Soldiers.
He was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal with 2 Bronze Stars, a Meritorious Unit Award, the Philippine Liberation Medal with 2 Bronze Stars, along with a Good Conduct Medal.
The Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal: the medal itself is for the theater in general, plus one major campaign (or large battle or landing); the two subsequent stars are for two more campaigns.
The first campaign was a landing at Morotai on New Guinea, the second was the combat landing in Luzon, Philippines. That amphibious landing, by the way, was larger than D-Day. It did not receive the same news coverage, plus the initial landing was not contested by the Japanese as vigorously as was the European D-Day assault by the Germans. The deadly fighting in the Philippines took place inland in many different battles.
The 3rd star is for the campaign to regain Manila and the southern Philippines. That’s also where the Philippines Liberation Medal and stars comes from which were given by the Philippine Government. Because of the one combat landing, they were awarded a bronze arrowhead attachment in front of the 2 bronze stars.
Yep. Pappy would not readily talk about his time serving in WWII, but he would agree with the notion that the deployment of Fat Man and Little Boy saved countless lives, his included.
Sorry about the rambling… This day always hits hard and yeah, I miss my dad and my two uncles who served in Europe.
“Most writers have looked to the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; to find answers for the use of those atomic weapons. The real answers lay in thousands of graves from Pearl Harbor around the world to Normandy and back again. The actual use of the weapons as ordered by the President of the United States was believed to be the quickest and least costly (in terms of lives lost) way to stop the killing. I carried out those orders with the loyal support of the men of the 509th Composite Bomb Group and the United States military at large. Our job was to serve. Our sworn duty was to God, country and victory.”—Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, pilot and commander of the Enola Gay mission
There were many American lives saved as a result of FDR’s decision to drop the atom bombs. The Japanese government had expected each and every one of their citizens to fight to the death. The ensuing battles would have killed many more Americans and those of our allies. Dropping the atomic bomb must have been a difficult thing to live with, but I hope that General Tibbets found peace knowing his actions ended the war that had killed so many millions of lives and destroyed so many countries.
I fear our military leaders today may be lacking this kind of resolve that is needed for quick, decisive victory that our military once had. They have been cowed by feeble minded politicians and the MIC, who prefer to have Forever Wars where pockets can be lined in perpetuity with $$millions in profits, both in the destruction of cities and their reconstruction. These profiteers care nothing for human lives. We have been witnessing this for decades now. It is sickening.
Not to pick a fine point on this one, but Truman made the Go/NoGo decision on that one.
Truman, not FDR.
Otherwise, agree!
Never heard of Tibbets or Groves regretting anything. Nor Truman.
Now the scientists were eager to blow up Berlin to get Hitler, but some had lots of problems about blowing up Japan.
Tibbets and crew dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima.
I don’t know the name of the pilot and crew who dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki.
Colonel Paul Tibbets piloted B-29 “Enola Gay”, dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima.
Major Charles Sweeney piloted B-29 “Bockscar”, dropped “Fat Man” on Nagasaki…
The Japanese were within days of completing their own atomic weapon, using weapons grade uranium delivered to them by German U-Boat.
Hindsight is always 20/20 especially if a Democrat Lawyer is making the call.
Not many are around anymore who were alive on that fateful day and remember it. May all who were killed on that day, in the following war and those who fought that are no longer with us rest in peace.
My father told me where he was on that day. He was in a theater in downtown San Diego when the news was announced. At first most people in there thought it was some kind of hoax. Only after the shore patrol came in and rousted all the military personnel in there out that everyone realized it was real.
I heard this morning that 13 veterans of Pearl Harbor are still living.
A number of which who were less than honest about their age when they volunteered for service. The military at that point probably wasn’t asking too many questions.
This book is worth reading. They didn’t only recently start lying about everything.
“Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor” is a book by Robert Stinnett. It alleges that Franklin Roosevelt and his administration deliberately provoked and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the United States into World War II. Stinnett argues that the attacking fleet was detected by radio and intelligence intercepts, but the information was deliberately withheld from Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet at that time.
Would FDR’s motive be to stop Fascism, Nazism and Imperialism–but not Communism?
I’ll take $$$ for $1,000, Alex.
You won’t read it in today’s “politically correct” “history” books, but FDR was a communist sympathizer, was VERY friendly with Joe Stalin….
FDR’s wife Eleanor traveled to Moscow MANY times to “visit” Stalin…
FDR was also great friends with Adolph Hitler, kept us out of the war for two years because of that friendship, even though German U-Boats were sinking millions of tons of our shipping.
What is the opposite of civilizational erasure?
A: MAGA
No. Christianity.
Fair enough.
Colossians 1:17
“He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”
Thank you for this post.
Increasingly, this day to remember is forgotten by the younger generations, and an ungrateful society.
I’ll second that. Thank you Sundance.
a second to your great writing is your great talent for choosing pictures.
thank you.
Thank you, Sundance, and to President Trump for this proclamation. My Dad joined the Navy just after the attack, fought aboard the destroyer USS Madison, and thankfully came home in 1945 at the end of the war, and I was born a year later. I am forever grateful for the Greatest Generation and their bravery in defending the United States of America!
My dad did the same Mule. On the USS Waller, fought at Leyte Gulf.
Blue Collar, the young men today are not like our dads!
If our Dads, the heroes that fought and won WWII were still alive, they would have already gone to Washington D.C. and drained the swamp!
Busy ship.
https://www.usswaller.com/ww2hist.html
Everything to know about the Madison
https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_USS_Madison_DD425.html
If you would like to read about an interesting personal event of the day that gives you a perspective of where we were and where we are today in race relations, read the heroic story of Doris “Dorie” Miller. Dorie was a black man born in Waco, Texas to sharecroppers and his grandparents had been slaves. He was serving as what amounted to a maid on a ship in the harbor when the attack took place.
I got you.
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They missed the carriers, they missed the fuel tank farm, and they missed the dry docks.
All three missed targets would play a role in their ultimate defeat.
The carriers were missed because Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Stark ordered Admiral Kimmel to dispatch his aircraft carriers with a large escort fleet to deliver planes to Wake and Midway Islands. ‘On orders from Washington, Kimmel left his oldest vessels inside Pearl Harbor and sent twenty-one modern warships, including his two aircraft carriers, west toward Wake and Midway… With their departure the warships remaining in Pearl Harbor were mostly 27-year-old relics of World War I’. (Day of Deceit, 2000)
The Enterprise had finished reinforcing Wake, she and her escort were returning. She would have been in port if it weren’t for a delay due to bad weather. As it was she was about 200 miles out, had sent some aircraft in to port and they got involved in the fight. Took some casualties. Some from friendly fire.
The Lexington was still outbound and was recalled before reinforcing Midway.
The Japs had known the Carriers were out before attacking. They had also planned on destroying the fuel depot, the dry docks, the submarine facility and so forth. They even had a flying observer who catalogued what they hit and what they missed. The observer didn’t recommend going back to finish the job.
I guess mission discipline wasn’t a big thing back then. Everybody wanted to sink the battleships.
Imagine the battle of Midway without the Yorktown getting repaired from the damage she took at the battle of the Coral Sea. Having to operate out of the West Coast would have seriously restricted our ability to win.
Going back to finish the job might have won them the war. May have even caught the Enterprise. From this point through the naval battles near Guadalcanal, the Japanese had a strong habit of winning fights, but failing to follow thru, declaring victory but leaving us to fight another day. Like the Battle of Savo Island, where they crushed our picket line defense but didn’t attack the Guadalcanal invasion fleet.
Yamamoto had a good idea of what our ship building program was already scheduled to deliver. He said they would be able to run wild for 6 months but that they better win in 2 years. Tarawa was in November 1943, 2 years after Pearl. That is how long it took us to have enough ships to start Island hopping.
I think that this knowledge that they couldn’t compete in manufacturing is why they were so careful to return mostly intact instead of taking greater risks to finish the job. But I haven’t found direct proof.
The Japanese attack plans envisioned three waves of attacks, the third of which was to destroy the drydocks and tank farms. The Japanese Commander, Admiral Nagumo, decided to retire after the second wave and head back to Japan.
The Greatest Generation, God Bless Them All, and America.
Subsequent false flags, attempting to reduce patriotism, have failed. Let that be a lesson for the “enemies, foreign and domestic”.
8 Tales of Pearl Harbor Heroics | HISTORY:
3. George Welch and Kenneth Taylor
TAYLOR (LEFT) AND WELCH.
Army Air Corps pilots George Welch and Kenneth Taylor spent the evening before the Pearl Harbor attack attending a formal dance and playing poker until the wee hours of the morning. They were still sleeping off their night of partying when they were awakened around 8 a.m. by the sound of exploding bombs and machine gun fire.
Not wanting to miss out on a fight, the pair threw on their tuxedo pants and sped to Haleiwa airfield in Taylor’s Buick, dodging strafing Japanese planes along the way. Just minutes later, they became the first American pilots to get airborne after they took off in their P-40 fighters.
Welch and Taylor went on to wage a lonely battle against hundreds of enemy planes. They even landed at Wheeler airfield at one point and had their ammunition replenished before rejoining the fray. By the time the attack ended, the second lieutenants had shot down at least six fighters and bombers between them. Both were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for their high-flying exploits, and Taylor was given a Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound he received when his P-40 was struck by machine gun fire.
4. Doris Miller
Doris Miller’s skin color usually relegated him to the role of cook and laundry attendant aboard USS West Virginia, but when the ship was struck by multiple bombs and torpedoes on December 7, he became one of its most vital crewmembers. Miller had rushed to his battle station amidships as soon as the shooting started. Finding it destroyed, the amateur boxer sprinted to the quarterdeck and used his hulking frame to help move the injured. Miller was among the men who carried the ship’s mortally wounded skipper to safety, and he then helped pass ammunition to the crews of two .50 caliber machine guns.
Despite having no weapons training, he eventually manned one of the weapons himself and began blasting away at the Japanese fighters swarming around the ship. “It wasn’t hard,” he later remembered. “I just pulled the trigger and she worked fine…I think I got one of those Jap planes. They were diving pretty close to us.”
Miller continued to operate the gun for some 15 minutes until ordered to abandon ship. His actions earned him the Navy Cross—the first ever presented to an African American—and he was widely hailed as a war hero in the black press. He later toured the country promoting war bonds before being reassigned to the escort carrier Liscome Bay. Sadly, Miller was among the 646 crewmen killed when the ship was later torpedoed and sunk in 1943.” …….
I miss those guys. They were a special breed and we were blessed to have them.
Today, all our Pearl Harbors are Sneak Attacks on the American People by our own wicked Government of Occupation.
They were the Pearls before swine.
I thank all veterans of our wars for their service.
There was one positive consequence of WWII: the integration of 2nd generation immigrants into the culture of America. Under the stress of war, those who served were acknowledged to be Americans first, instead of being identified by their parents’ and grandparents’ nationality.
What will drive integration of the 20% of US population (roughly 53,000,000) who are 1st and 2nd generation immigrants? I pray it doesn’t take a global war.
On that day, a Sunday, my Mom and her parents and siblings went to church. When they returned home they heard of it on the radio.
One of her brothers was at Iwo Jima. One was in Okinawa and possibly at Iwo Jima. They were in the Army separately, but reunited in Japan near the end. One was in Occupied Japan for a time.
Japan has become a trusted ally while our WWII allies, Europe, have shown that they are not true allies.
European government leaders have shown that they are not true allies of the United States. These corrupted leaders are not following the will of the people in their countries most of whom would be in favor of being strong allies with America.
In the 90’s I was walking up 5th Ave NYC, with a client. They wanted to spend the evening at 21. They had earned it the old fashion way. The gentleman was a WWII veteran, who had achieved his “Ace Badge”, in the Pacific Theater.
Just sitting in the room watching him shred the “know it all’s”, was privileged
We were ironically in front of Trump Tower, when a group of Japanese gentlemen, with their family’s stopped us. Very well dressed, inquiring which direction the “Statue Of Liberty” was.
Just as I put my hand on his arm, he turn and smiled, replied, Hiroshima.
You should have seen their faces.
You should see mine, reaching that punchline.
Thank you for not forgetting. God bless them all!
FDR sacrificed those men so he could enter the war without breaking his campaign promise not to. Our leaders often are evil.
December 7, 1941 . . . a Day of Deceit – article published on Dec 7, 2000. Proof Roosevelt knew in Jan 1941 of the Dec 7 plan to attack Pearl Harbor and provoked it.
Ya need to add 9/11 to that.
They were “united in a singular mission: to defeat tyranny”. And now we have more tyranny at home than we’ve ever had abroad. Hopefully, this time, we all we unite again to defeat tyranny at home.
While I was growing up in the ’50’s, a man in my neighborhood was a ship captain in the merchant marine. But during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was first mate on a tanker full of oil over on the other side of Oahu. He said they could hear planes diving, bombs exploding, hear and smell the gunpowder. They had no idea who was attacking who, and thankfully, never saw any planes.
After that of course, his day job became, shall we say, interesting.
As a kid I was so frustrated because my dad wouldn’t talk about his war service, just that he was stationed in Australia. Many years later, we found out he was in the Navy unit that broke the Japanese naval codes. It was the 1980’s before all the hush-hush ended; by then he was beyond talking about anything.
a solemn oath. a promise and a signature. A raised hand.
Send me OH GOD. Prepare me for this killing. Let me return to my home and family.
roughly 405,000 young men and some women, never made it back home. Most are buried at sea, in unmarked graves. And even that most came back alive but suffering because of what they SWORE TO DO, AT ALL COSTS>’
They don’t call it the greatest generations because it sells ads. I’ll tell you that much.
Giants, stars up above, glaring down upon our world today, and trying hard to get the message:
have a purpose for war….it’s the only thing that will make sense when it’s over.
that one true thing that anyone, even a maggot left progressives nunce can understand.
I did it that YOU MAY LIVE.
God Bless America
That day changed both of my grandparents life trajectories.
But with MAGA now I think it emphasizes something else. The industrial strength we have lost with free trade.
Could we do what we did today industrial wise?
“Although untested in battle, these patriots, still reeling from horror and disbelief, united in a singular mission: to defeat tyranny.”
But tyrants constantly arise.
In 2021-24, tyranny returned to the US, this time from within: Unnecessary, profoundly harmful, and unconstitutional lockdowns, masks, and insidious ineffective genetic manipulation shots coerced on the people, for an engineered virus about as hazardous as the flu overall, with suppression of safe effective mitigations like ivermectin, reinforced by propaganda and censorship.
Why?
And the reckoning for this tyranny is not forthcoming, instead a series of Limited Hangouts seek to cover the tracks. Why?
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Our strong alliance is a testament to the transformational power of peace, diplomacy, and democracy.” – Sundance
I would add the power of forgiveness. Some loved ones and some involved in the war never did but I believe a vast majority of Americans involved in that war eventually did? JMO
elementary, forgiveness is a form and factor of justice. a trial that was settled long ago. Obey the WORD OF GOD and seek forgiveness when you have sinned.
Imagine the purity of that simply yet, enormous costs.
GOD EATS SIN.
and God sends his special blessings, mercies (all very much real miracles tbc), to replace that vacuum. because yes, while sin can never steal the light of the world, those that sin can most certainly try to throw water of the fire of life. Satan instructs this, it is his message. Hide from the light, sour good water, insult and humiliate your neighbor and friend, assault children, vote for a Democrat.
these are not hard to understand reasons why we must all prepare ourselves each day, positively, at the very first light when it’s good to notice life and WHO is responsible for making this possible (GOD, AND ONLY GOD), and then to bow down, take a knee, maybe even both, Grip your hands together and brace your chest and body tight. Then simply pray. There is not instructions manual for what you will talk about, but the steps that you can do that I have stated, are not simply ceremonial, but essential. God never created robots. But he does expect common courtesies, even if we cannot possibly imagine the kind of love that actually involves. It’s a process…take it day by day and never forget..you have an angel sent by GOD. This angel of yours is here now to help me you SHINE.
God Bless America
My uncle was a young Marine engineer. He fought the battle of Guadalcanal and then island hopped towards Japan.
We had a bond because he was a Marine and I was Army Infantry. One day he told me that his best buddy had been killed by the Japanese. I asked him if he hated the Japanese. He said “No. They bled red blood just like us.”
His death was tragic. The atomic bomb had saved him from island hopping into Japan. But after the war he lived in Arizona near where the nuclear bomb testing had been done. And he developed cancer. So it was an irony that the nuclear bombs saved him, only to kill him later.
Rest in peace my dear friend.
My old man graduated from college in the summer of 1941 as the commandant of his ROTC unit. He said at his graduation ceremony, an Army General told them: “get ready boys, we’re going to end up in this thing someday.” He and his buddy decided to volunteer for this new fangled airborne concept since it was an extra 50 bucks a month. So, when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, his unit trained all the airborne divisions to come: 11th, 17th, 82nd and 101st, which meant he was missing out on the “action”, so to speak. He got to Europe in January 1945, but saw no action since Patton kept overrunning his drop zones. He was on orders to Japan to spearhead Operation Olympic…which I doubt he would have survived…when Truman made the right call.
He always regretted not seeing combat like his fellow GIs, but I consider it a blessing since I would have known a changed man if he had made it home after all that. God bless all those who didn’t
Thank God for the American Fighting MAN.
They left out the part about Roosevelt, et al, having previous knowledge of the “Surprise” attack and leaving our ships and young men WIDE OPEN to be murdered and destroyed.
I’m not the least bit interested in anymore revisionist history. Even when it’s coming from the Trump administration.
“My grandmother knew how to say what she damn well pleased, not that she ever would have said “damn.” As a boy, I asked her what the difference was between Democrats and Republicans. She said, “Democrats rent.”
Once, when I remarked on slum conditions as we drove through a bad part of town, my grandmother said, “No one’s ever so poor he can’t pick up his yard.”
And when I came home from college declaring that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were both fascist pigs and I was a Communist, she said—take heed, Bernie—”at least you’re not a Democrat.”
Going through family photographs I realize that my grandmother cultivated old age. By the time she was 40 her affect was Margaret Dumont opposite Groucho Marx in A Night at the Opera—if Groucho had been the straight man.
In 1966, when the Post Office issued its 6-cent FDR commemorative, my grandmother said, “My friends and I are having trouble using that new Roosevelt stamp.”
“Why?” I asked.
“We keep spitting on the wrong side.”–P. J. O’Rourke
My Father was a Secret Service Agent assigned to the Presidential Detail at the White House starting in 1940 and spent the entire war with FDR at Casablanca, Quebec, Yalta, Tehran. and was at War Springs when he died. On December7th, he and my Mom were at a Redskins-Eagles game at Griffith Stadium. In the days before pagers and cell-phones, a public address system at events were the only way to make contact with individuals in emergencies. During the game, the PA system began to request senior military officers by name, at first one at a time, and no one noticed. The, more names, over and over, and the crowd became very curious. Dad said by this time he had left Mom and gone to a payphone and got recalled to the White House immediately. By thr time he got there there were armed troops forming n the parking lot between the War Department (now the EOB) and the White House and he knew something big was up.
The next day he was with FDR and the detail for the War Declaration, and every time I see the FDR
video, he is the tall guy standing directly in the doorway as FDR reads the declaration!
https://www.c-span.org/clip/joint-session-of-congress/user-clip-president-roosevelts-day-of-infamy-address-to-congress/4808243
I can’t believe it’s not an official act of acknowledgment/appreciation to fly the Stars and Stripes at half mast on December 7th. My family does.
Tim reminds us of the human effects and the cost of freedom.
Captain Aloysius Schmitt
Roman Catholic Chaplain from St. Lucas, Iowa, who saved 12 sailors during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
https://americancatholichistory.org/fr-aloysius-schmitt-pearl-harbor/
May God Bless the United States of America 🇺🇸
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (attributed, used in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!)
“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having ‘smitten a sleeping enemy’; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.” -Yamamoto in a letter to the Editor in Chief of Asahi Shimbun one month after Pearl Harbor.
Either way, The Giant did awaken and did get revenge.
Perhaps someday The Giant may awaken yet again. He has had a very long slumber.
It’s only been 85 years and now the wars are completely faked by globalist tyrants who fake Everything, from the media, to elections, and even pandemics.
The NEW Normal
We must restore America to honor their blood and sacrifice. There is no co-existence with the left.
Dress whites, standing at attention on the flight deck in Pearl Harbor, manning the rails past the USS Arizona during the Cold War.
a few asides:
the biggest force getting the Arizona Memorial built was … Elvis Presley
JFK somberly noted to make sure our planes were not parked wing tip-to-wing tip during the Cuban Missile Crisis as at …
NFL games that Sunday kicked off at 1:00PM EST, same time that attack began in Hawaii. At Griffith Stadium, the Redskins public address system announced that all Top Officers need to report in — nobody knew what was going on, just imagine…
Among the next Aircraft Carriers to be commissioned, one already named in honor of Dorie Miller, my all-time WWII hero!
I still get emotional whenever I think about him
Herman Wouk’s “The Winds Of War” and its sequel “War and Remembrance” are an entertaining way to begin to understand all the dynamics at work during WW II.
I was born at home 5 days before Pearl Harbor. At the age of 24 I qualified as a Flight Engineer on a U.S. Navy P3 Orion aircraft thanks on the on the job training provided by Senior Chief Petty Officer Walter T. Atwell. He was a crew member on the aircraft carrier USS Hornet when it was sunk in World War II. It was my honor to work with many men who had served in that war who were completing their careers.
The Japanese commander made a crucial decision to not launch the third bombing raid because the American aircraft carriers weren’t at Pearl Harbor that day and he got nervous. The third planned raid would’ve taken out the fuel tanks and the docks, making Pearl virtually unusable and pretty much ending the American presence in the Pacific. America would’ve been forced to concentrate on Hitler and the Japanese would have to be dealt with later.
Very clear CBS transcription via WCCO:
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Brings tears to my eyes. God bless our military.
It is humbling to walk around the park and to look out towards the USS Arizona. I will never forget December the 7th or September the 11th.
I imagine that if the Americans in 1941 could see visions of America (outside of MAGA) in 2025, they would conclude that we lost the war and the sacrifice was for nil.
Many years ago, on a whim, I enlarged a picture of the names on the wall of the Arizona Memorial, and much to my surprise someone with our family surname, not a common name, was listed., possibly a relative.