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Iwo Jima Memorial site
There are six Flag Raisers on the photo. Four in the front line and two in back. The front four are (left to right) Ira
Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley and Harlon Block. The back two are Michael Strank (behind Sousley) and Rene Gagnon (behind
Bradley). Strank, Block and Sousley would die shortly afterwards. Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon became national heroes within
weeks.
The Last One
This page is open to all WWII and Korea vets to tell their stories and share their pics. Please send all to me for
review and posting.
Thanks
Steve
Pearl Harbor ! On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise
attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander
Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships
were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island, where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington
was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States.) In spite
of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided
to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu, he launched
the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers
which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715
hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets. At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima
B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and
Pearl Harbor. Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack. When it was over, the U.S. losses were:
Casualties USA: 218 KIA, 364 WIA. USN: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA. USMC: 109 KIA, 69 WIA. Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA. TOTAL: 2,403
KIA, 1,178 WIA. Battleships USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magiazine. USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss
when she capsized and sunk in the harbor. USS California (BB-44) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired. USS West
Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired. USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage. USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage. USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage. USS Utah
(AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk. Cruisers USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage.. ; USS San Francisco
(CA38) - Light Damage. USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage. USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired. USS Helena (CL-50)
- Light Damage. USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage.. Destroyers USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged. USS Cassin
- (DD-372) Destroyed. Parts salvaged. USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage. USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage. Minelayer USS
Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired. Seaplane Tender USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
Repair Ship USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired. Harbor Tug USS Sotoyom o (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised
and repaired. Aircraft
188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)
12-07-1941
Pearl Harbor Pictures
World War Two Moving Maps of the European Theater
The stories of our brothers in World War Two.
| Herb Danter, out of Normandy into Belgium. 09/44 |
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| At Historic Old Fort York. 04/04 |
Herb's Story
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