Selena
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Can you imagine walking through the Arizona memorial with this hero?
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Thanks for posting this. My FIL's birthday is Dec. 7th. He would be 93 if he were still with us. Army vet.
Awesome, A day that will remain in infamy.
JPGLSG1234
Blackhawk
Thank you.
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
Lived out on Ford Island in 1947/48, that was my little brothers first home when he was born in Hawaii. NO Memorial on the Arizona in those days, but you could see her lying beneath the waters and crying her tears. Hanger doors on the Island had bullet holes in them.
Ka6otm
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I was stationed at Schofield Barracks in '67 and there were round bullet holes in the concrete on the side of my barracks from when one of the Army guys took a machine gun and went on the roof. A zero or something decided to strafe him. The holes are left as a reminder to those who are stationed there.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/us-army-hawaii-pearl-harbor
Theodore Pavlovich of the 25th Infantry Division's 35th Infantry Regiment was sitting down to a mess hall breakfast when a bomb exploded at a nearby barracks at Schofield. Initially confused, Japanese aircraft began strafing the base, leaving little doubt about what was happening. Ammunition and weapons were meticulously accounted for during the peace of the interwar, and only Army supply sergeants and officers had keys to access storage lockers. Pavlovich and a few fellow soldiers kicked open the door to the supply room after the sergeant could not be roused from a drunken stupor. Climbing through the attic and making their way to the roof, Pavolich and the others set up a machine gun and fired at the attacking aircraft as they flew past.
