[Previously posted observances of the Day of Infamy here.]
7 December 1941
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7 December 1941
Enhanced color image posted at View From Lady Lake. Original un-enhanced photos here. Previously posted items are in the archive.
Remember Always – 7 December 1941
[Image from USNI Proceedings January 1961. Related posts here.]
We Remember- 7 December 1941
Correction. WAR was declared upon U.S. by Japan by the unprovoked attack, and the U.S. responded.
Dad always stamped his letters with this:
REMEMBER ALWAYS & NEVER FORGET: 7 DEC 1941
There was no Declaration of War until after the attack.
The United States of America was cold-cocked and sucker-punched on this date 73 years ago mostly due to the ignorance and ineptitude of C students in Washington D.C.
May God Bless the souls who gave their lives in voluntary sacrifice; and May God Bless the living who selflessly protect our Country from those who wish us dead.
[7 December 1941 archives here.]
7 December 1941 – Remember Always
We Remember
Scanned image of a rubber stamp that Papa Strutts had made. He used it on much of his correspondence to commemorate that Day of Infamy.
7 December 1941 – Remember Always.
…and deliver us from evil.
Those words are as poignant today as when the Lord’s Prayer was written, apropos in 1941, and especially applicable in the long aftermath of 911.
May God Bless the souls who gave their lives in voluntary sacrifice; and May God Bless the living who selflessly protect our Country from those who wish us dead.
7 December 1941 – Remember Always
Never forget that there was no Declaration of War until after the attack. Image from here includes this description:
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance.
A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California.
On the near side of Ford Island, to the left, are light cruisers Detroit and Raleigh, target and training ship Utah and seaplane tender Tangier. Raleigh and Utah have been torpedoed, and Utah is listing sharply to port.
Japanese planes are visible in the right center (over Ford Island) and over the Navy Yard at right.
Hawaii Time 7:53AM 7 December 1941
Tacky Raccoons 