It's Pearl Harbor remembrance day - NEVER Forget

Last year for the 75th anniversary I met some of the toughest, and nicest, old guys ever born. They all, alive and gone, deserve immense respect.

These guys were up at 3am preparing for the days events and still walked mile after mile during the parade that started at 7pm and did not end until near midnight.
 


Awesome Anthony!
 
Here's a true story you won't read in the history books.. My neighbor was on the USS Henley that was moored in East Lock with battle stations manned,a "green" sailor having sounded General Quarters instead of Quarter for Muster. This fortunate mistake gave Henley the opportunity to fire the first destroyer shots as the initial wave of enemy planes swooped in. Her gunner shot down one dive bomber with a 50 cal and shared another take down with another gunner. Here's the real story that "green" sailor was coming off a major hang over and that's how he hit General Quarters instead of Quarters for Muster which woke up most of the crew. Most of the men at Pearl had partied pretty hard the night before and a lot were sleeping it off. The Henley went on to fight in the war and was sunk by a torpedo of the coast of New Guinea 1943.
USS Henley (DD-391) - Wikipedia
 

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Have been watching The World at War In Colour just this week . Pearl Harbour was tragic , had it not been for that ,
Life would be very different for us Brits !
 
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