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My Dad was on the battleship Maryland.

He arrived in Hawaii the day before, Dec 6th. He was assigned to an anti-aircraft gunnery crew. None of them had been trained yet. By the time they located their gun, removed the tarp & read the manual, the Japanese were gone. They never fired a shot. When the alarms first sounded he was asleep in his bunk, he thought it was a drill & was slow to react. Until the explosions started, then he knew he wasn’t in Kansas anymore.
Posted: 12/07/2023 at 12:54 PM ET
(In response to this post by ValveHokie)

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“December 7, 1941…a date that will live in infamy”.-Franklin D. Roosevelt**
JKHokie-RunFor32 • 12/07/23 08:27 AM ET
My grandfather and his brother were on USS Utah (BB-31) that morning
ValveHokie • 12/07/23 11:49 AM ET
My Grandfather was on the Rail that morning. But he never talked
HOKIE • 12/07/23 03:15 PM ET
My Dad was on the battleship Maryland. ◄
BusLoadaBozos • 12/07/23 12:54 PM ET
I've got a newspaper from December 8, 1941...
Chris ColemanAdmin • 12/07/23 10:52 AM ET
December 8th, I think we've f'ed up, signed the Empire of Japan...**
banishedtothelounge • 12/07/23 09:56 AM ET
If the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" is correct, ...
Atlee Hokie • 12/07/23 12:12 PM ET
Yea, and by some intervention- our carriers were out to sea...
banishedtothelounge • 12/07/23 12:37 PM ET
Spent a fair amount of time on Ford Island the last decade
Happy Dog • 12/07/23 09:26 AM ET
Hellish work for salvage divers that were recovering bodies into the summer
HokieDan95 • 12/07/23 10:38 AM ET
And, IMO, it's slowly fading from the collective memory and Infamy.**
Atlee Hokie • 12/07/23 08:42 AM ET
Don't get me started.**
JKHokie-RunFor32 • 12/07/23 03:15 PM ET
Such is the passage of time.
hoosnowahokie • 12/07/23 09:15 AM ET