Audio: Pearl Harbor remembered
posted at 2:44 pm on November 12, 2006 by Allahpundit
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One of our readers so enjoyed the video of Harry Karp that he sent along the following audio recording of Harry L. Thompson, a relative of his who happened to be the commanding officer of the USS Nevada on December 7, 1941. The Nevada was the only battleship to get under way that morning and sustained damage so severe that the ship nearly sank.
It didn’t, though. Having been in the thick of the action at the beginning, it was still in the thick of it at the end.
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If we are ever to stop another Pearl Harbor or September 11, 2001 attack, or a Bali, or a Madrid, or a London 7/7, etc… then we absolutely must ask ourselves why liberal blogs say the exact same message of hate as do our sworn enemies?
Why is this? Are they on our side?
Fox news has a 2:27 video that makes this clear.
Christoph on November 12, 2006 at 3:07 PM
The Nevada’s sister ships were in the action at Leyte Gulf in the last major Battleship/Battleship exchange in naval history. The West Vrginia, Tennessee, Maryland California and Pennsylvania – all also sunk or badly damaged at Pearl Harbor – came back with a vengance:
“At 03:52, West Virginia unleashed her eight 16 inch (406 mm) guns of the main battery at a range of 22,800 yards (25 km), striking the leading Japanese battleship with her first salvo. Of the first six salvos West Virginia fired, five had struck the target and in all she fired 16 salvoes in the direction of Nishimura’s ships as Oldendorf crossed the T of the Japanese fleet and thus achieved the tactical mastery of a situation that almost every surface admiral dreams of. At 04:13, the “Wee Vee” ceased fire; the Japanese remnants proceeded in disorder down the strait from whence they had come.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_West_Virginia_(BB-48)
forest on November 12, 2006 at 3:14 PM
This is an interesting audio. Still listening… there’s not much I can think of to say on it except that he comes across as a very decent man and I’m proud that under attack, your enlisted people were struggling to get toward your base, toward their ships.
That’s as it should be.
He’s also honest about the threat he saw from Japanese locals in Hawaii. I don’t know whether he was right or wrong in a historical sense, but he’s honest.
Christoph on November 12, 2006 at 3:35 PM
A day that still lives in infamy. And yet the country loses sight of the day only a few years ago, when the modern day ruthless enemy of our great country, perpetrated its evil deed. The most significant difference between the two attacks being of course that Japan attacked the American military resources that saw as a potential threat to its plans, and the Islamo-Fascist attacked the civilian people of a way of life that they have contempt for and a desire to put an end to.
Let’s hope that we still have heroes among us to act as if they know how to handle the tough situations when they arise, so as to provide courage and hope to those who will fight the battle when see such days again.
“I can’t remember his name but… He was a… an ensign who had come right from training. Ah, a navel reserve ensign he’d only had a few months training on shore. And had been sent to the ship for duty, and had only arrived on the ship the day before. I had met the young man, and talked to him. But he had not been assigned to any duty. But, he was so ancous to do something. And ahh, he was very pale, but he was quite determined, and he stuck with me like a leach, and acted as a messenger. And every now and then he’d ask me if there wasn’t something else that he could do.
It gives me… quite a lump in the throat often times when I think about… how those men worked.”
RalphyBoy on November 12, 2006 at 5:04 PM
The USS Nevada was also the flagship at Normandy on D-Day.
The Germans got their taste of 16 inchers as well.
Marvin on November 12, 2006 at 7:03 PM
You don’t know?
Are you able to tell shit from shinola?
Damn.
If you don’t know, best to ask someone who does.
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The Machine on November 12, 2006 at 7:36 PM
…theirs was called “The Greatest Generation”.
…in light of the rapidly moving events regarding today’s military and geopolitical challenges, what will we call their children’s generation, who couldn’t give up on challenges fast enough?
Puritan1648 on November 12, 2006 at 11:42 PM
Puritan, I hope and pray that we Baby Boomers have become the new Greatest Generation.
Jen the Neocon on November 13, 2006 at 3:18 AM
Great post AP.
Cary on November 13, 2006 at 10:46 AM
*salutes*
Yakko77 on November 13, 2006 at 1:00 PM
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