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[aaronjhill]

Oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor marks 105th birthday

Happy birthday, Mr. Eskenazi.

[reverseb1rth]

just learned that tails gets trolled is a consistently updated webcomic that's been going on for like 11 years, i thought it was a one shot. this is my pearl harbor

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[robertkingsleyposts]

December 7, 1941

Next week, it will be exactly 75 years since the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor changed our world forever. The Japanese conquest of South-East Asia marked the end of the great British, Dutch and French colonial empires in the Far-East. After four years of hard fighting and two atom-bombs, they were swept into history's dustbin and replaced by a new global power structure, with a forty-year "cold war" added in for good measure.

To commemorate this pivotal historical event, seven other authors and I teamed up to write a collection of short stories, revolving around this date. And that is all they have in common. The stories are as diverse as they can be and take place all over the globe. On Hawaii of course, but also in occupied France, in Germany Ireland, the continental US and Singapore.

My contribution takes place in Singapore, here's an excerpt

Monday December 8, 1941

The first Japanese bombs dropped on Singapore hit Raffles Square exactly at 04.20 the next morning. There had been no warning, just a feeble air-raid alarm that nobody took serious. Its wail was soon drowned out by thundering explosions, the dry rattle of falling masonry and the shattering crash of bursting and splintering window glass. The Japanese bombers then continued to their next target, helped by the city lights that remained switched on during the air raid, as no one in the power station could find the keys to turn them off

Mike Murdoch jumped out of his bed and jerked the curtains aside to see what all the noise was about. Right before his startled eyes, a parade formation of Japanese bombers unhurriedly dropped their deadly load on Raffles Square and Chinatown and Keppel Harbor. Searchlights probed the sky and Anti-Aircraft batteries on land and ships were blasting away with everything they had. Undaunted, the Japanese bombers sedately flew on as they dropped their remaining load on Singapore’s airfields. Then, unscathed and still flying in impeccable parade formation, they made a wide circle over the harbour and disappeared out to sea, leaving 61 killed and 133 injured in their wake… ‘Son of a bitch!’, Murdoch growled. He grabbed the telephone and frantically dialled a local number. It buzzed and buzzed until finally a sleepy voice answered. ‘You awake Helmut? Good, Mike here. Grab your goddam camera and plenty of film and get your ass over here, right now! It’s war!’

The honourable Lun Yue Sheong watched some Air Raid Wardens dig out the body of another battered victim from under the rubble on Raffles Place. It was quickly wrapped in a piece of sailcloth and carried off on an unhinged door. Stretchers were obviously in short supply.

His wife had woken him up in the middle of the night with a crazy story about bombs on the town.  At first he had scorned the idea but she had persisted and there were unusual sounds in the distance. In the end, he had become worried and gone out to see for himself. He had walked all the way to the “Happy World” amusement centre that he and some fellow Chinese investors had put up and had found it reduced to nothing but a smoking heap of rubble. In a kind of trance, he had made his way back through the ruined North Bridge Road and Upper Cross Street, their buildings brought down and casualties still lying in the street. He had ended up at Raffles Square and there, while he stood staring at the blasted buildings, he had been forced to admit that war had come to Singapore...

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[daisukeh]

真珠湾攻撃から70年。 カラー映像で見る戦争ビデオ「1941パール・ハーバー」

1941年12月8日、大日本帝国海軍がハワイオアフ島のアメリカ海軍太平洋艦隊と基地に対して攻撃を行った有名な真珠湾攻撃。その日から70年が経つそ うです。いまディスカバリーチャンネルで知りました。その時のリアルな貴重映像を紹介します。この時、もし第三次攻撃を行い完全に叩いていたとしたら歴史 は変わっていたのかもしれませんね。...

- 真珠湾攻撃って１２月だったんだね。僕は勝手に、真珠湾→ハワイ→常夏→だから季節は夏って、大きな勘違いをしていました。どちらにしても忌まわしい戦争の記録です。ビデオ冒頭に出てくる賜盃（菊の金模様がある盃）が、いつだったかに訪れた忍野八海の古道具屋の店先で売られていたのを思い出しました。そんなもの情念が強すぎて誰も買えません…。 (via 1000mg)

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[revolution-is-my-name9]

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Каждый раз слушая мелодии с Пёрл Харбора я чувствую грусть и в тоже время такое счастье, такую улыбку! Я признаю этот фильм лучшим! Вы вспомните мои слова!