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Fighting Back on Dec 7th
402 American aircraft were present on Oahu on the morning of December 7th; of those, only a bare handful managed to get airborne and bring the fight back to the Japanese.
George Welch and Kenneth Taylor
Perhaps the most famous of the pilots that managed to fight back were Welch and Taylor, two Army pilots who commandeered a pair of P-40B Warhawk fighters from Haleiwa Auxiliary Airfield and began hunting. The two had been awoken by sounds of the attack and drove to the field to meet their fighters, which due to a lack of .50 caliber ammunition were armed only with the .30 caliber wing guns. Welch and Taylor quickly sighted a group of Aichi Val dive bombers over Ewa Field and tore into them; Taylor shot down at least two of the Vals and severely damaged a third, while Welch one destroyed and another damaged. The pair landed at the devastated Wheeler Field to refuel and rearm for a second sortie, this time with .50 caliber ammunition included. Avoiding near-certain destruction by strafing on takeoff, they entered a formation of Zeros and began firing; Welch would shoot down another Val and a Zero during the engagement, with Taylor picking off a third Val despite being injured. Once again out of ammunition, the pilots landed at Haleiwa and returned by car to Wheeler. Both Welch and Taylor were recommended for the Medal of Honor by General Arnold, but received Distinguished Service Crosses for their actions on December 7th.
Philip Rasmussen
Woken up by the sound of bombs exploding outside his barracks, Rasmussen ran outside to his P-36 Hawk dressed only in his pajamas. He and three other pilots managed to get airborne from Wheeler and were ordered to Kaneohe Bay to meet the second wave of the attack. Despite flying heavily underclassed aircraft and unfavorable odds, Rasmussen managed to shoot down one Zero before being badly damaged and loosing control of his aircraft. He landed at Wheeler without brakes, rudder controls, or a tail wheel; later examination by ground crew counted over 500 bullet holes in his aircraft. For his actions on December 7th he received the Silver Star.
Two pilots attempted to take off from Bellows Field in P-40Bs during the attack, George Whiteman and Samuel Bishop; Bishop was shot down shortly after takeoff and crashed into the ocean, which Whiteman was killed as his plane crashed at the end of the runway.
From Wheeler Field, John Dains flew two sorties in a P-40B and one in a P-36, reporting one Zero shot down before being hit by friendly anti-aircraft fire and crashing into the ocean.
The final aerial kill of the day was reported by Harry Brown, who shot down a Zero as it returned to its carrier from the second wave. Friendly fire would continue to take its toll for the rest of the day as nervous anti-aircraft gunners fired at whatever they saw, expecting another attack; five aircraft from Enterprise were lost this way as they approached the harbor that afternoon.
The survivors of the day’s combat. From left to right, 2nd Lt. Brown, 2nd Lt. Rasmussen, 2nd Lt. Welch, 2nd Lt. Taylor, and 1st Lt. Sanders.
While the heroic actions of the pilots did little to soften the blow of the Japanese attack, they provided a much needed morale boost to the soldiers and sailors still reeling from the surprise attack, giving them the sense that they could fight back and prevail even against enormous odds.
December 7th 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, Japanese forces led a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, bringing with them hundreds of fighter planes.
It began with a first wave of 183 planes, followed by a second wave of 171 planes, all with varying targets. A third wave was initially considered, but later withdrawn.
Thousands of Americans died in the less than 90-minute assault, including civilians. Another thousand were wounded.
“Hello, NBC … It is no joke. It is a real war.“
Listen to the live radio breaking news broadcast to NBC during the attack on #PearlHarbor on Dec. 7, 1941 — 77 years ago today.
SBD-2 Dauntlesses of VS-6 with USS Enterprise (CV-6), 27 October 1941
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11 AM, 11 / 11 / 18
Received from Brigade – PRIORITY – 11-11-18
Handed in at 175 Brigade Office 10:00 hrs – received 10:05 hrs
To 12th BATTALION
Hostilities cease 11:00 today [aaa] Troops will stand fast on the outpost line already established [aaa] All military precautions will be observed and there will be no communication with the enemy [aaa] Further instructions later [aaa] Acknowledge
…and of course…
The English and French headlines are both easy. What the German one says is: “Acceptance of Armistice Terms. Kaiser Interned. Hindenburg on the Run.”
But not soon enough. Not soon enough at all. These dates tell their own story.
George Edwin Ellison, 5th Royal Irish Lancers, British Army - killed 09:30 am 11/11/18.
Augustin Joseph Trébuchon, 415e Régiment d'Infanterie, Armée de Terre Française - killed 10:50 am 11/11/18.
George Lawrence Price, 28th Battalion (Northwest), Canadian Expeditionary Force - killed 10:58 am 11/11/18.
Henry John Gunther, 313th Infantry Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces - killed 10:59 am 11/11/18.
At least those men had names, and their relatives knew what had happened.
Others were less fortunate.
Many didn’t get even anonymous graves and headstones. Their bodies were lost, to exploding shells, ever-present mud and a shifting battlefront, until only names and memories remained.
Those names have sunlight and clean rain at the Thiepval Memorial…
They have bugles every evening at the Menin Gate…
And the memory of them has the song of skylarks, above Flanders fields where poppies still grow where they fell.
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”
“At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them.”
Remember.
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The Unbroken
Today, USS Johnston, Gambier Bay, St. Lo, and Samuel B. Roberts are sunk by the Japanese Centre Fleet. Together with them go Kumano, Haguro, and Tone.
Just a few hours prior, battleships Fuso and Yamashiro, cruiser Mogami, and destroyers Michishio, Yamagumo, and Asagumo were sunk by Admiral Jesse Oldendorf’s heavyweight fleet that had six battleships in it, five of which had been at Pearl Harbor.
Just a few hours later, Zuikaku, Chitose, Chiyoda, Zuiho, Tama, Akizuki, and Hatsuzuki are sunk by Halsey’s TF 38.
I just discovered there is a small subreddit dedicated to google-translating (and actually dubbing, very professionally!!) the Star Wars movies and occasional SWR episodes from english into chinese and back into english again, making the subtitles change ridiculously, and it’s positively the most hilarious thing I’ve ever come across since I saw the LotR post about a similar thing, here are some highlights:
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“USS Enterprise (CV-6). View taken 12 July 1942 off Ford Island, Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Note Grumman F4F Wildcat on barge aft alongside, also anti-torpedo nets and camouflaged buildings on Ford Island.”
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