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The Empire of Japan sealed its fate.

Remember Pearl Harbor!

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To our European and Asian friends: sorry we were late to the party. :oops:;)

Some of us didn't even bother to show up, you guys at least did your part :up:

9 years 2 months 26 days and yes they were Muslim

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Only you could be classless enough to s*** on a Pearl Harbor thread. :down:

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1548534)

Only you could be classless enough to s*** on a Pearl Harbor thread. :down:

I'm not the one who had one of my words edited with **'s. 'nough said.

Thankful for all the men that answered the call and paid the ultimate sacrifice to repay the IJN.

As for the 9/11 troll, someone please keelhaul him.

Excellent idea! I think "classless" was a perfect description.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1548543)

Excellent idea! I think "classless" was a perfect description.

Continuing to fight the last war helps no one. Remember the Maine/Alamo/Bunker Hill, et. al.

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Originally Posted by The Third Man (Post 1548553)

Continuing to fight the last war helps no one. Remember the Maine/Alamo/Bunker Hill, et. al.

You dolt! We're simply paying respects to those that lost their lives at Pearl Harbor. We're not forgetting something that happened in OUR lifetimes when we remember what occurred within the lifetime of the previous generation. We're simply a: mourning the fact that such an attack occurred and b: thankful for having such capable men to stand and react to it.

But I have a giant

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flag going off in the back of my head.

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Originally Posted by Radtgaeb (Post 1548561)

You dolt!

Great word, dolt. Not often used, and little understood by those called. :DL What did you call me?

What utter trash. Keelhaul him.

Well, that went downhill quick. :nope: Great job Third Man, as always.

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1548574)

Keelhaul him.

I know you don't mean that.

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Originally Posted by The Third Man (Post 1548533)

9 years 2 months 26 days and yes they were Muslim

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Not the time or place for this

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Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin (Post 1548608)

Not the time or place for this

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Why not?

If you have to be told, you'll never understand it.

Inevitably, the comparison between 7 Dec 41 and 11 Sep 01 is made, as both were "shocks to the system." This thread is not the place for such comparisons.

On an entirely thread-related note, I recently submitted a college paper for review, written about DD139 USS Ward, and her commander, William Outerbridge's actions outside the entrance to Pearl Harbor on the morning of the attack: the first official American shots of the war, and the first US sinking of a hostile submarine of the war, all occurred a little over an hour before the first Japanese aircraft appeared in the Sunday morning skies over Oahu.

Turned out that the reviewer on my paper is directly related to an USS O'Brien crewman. For those unfamiliar with the story, Ward was converted to a fast transport for the island-hopping campaign.

On the morning of 7 Dec 44, near Ormoc, she was struck by a single kamikaze. Initial reports were optimistic; the damage did not appear to be severe, and there was only one crewman injured by the strike. The fires spread quickly, however, and soon jeopardized the ship's ammo stowage. Ward's skipper gave the abandon ship command, and other destroyers in the area pulled alongside to help evacuate the ship.

Once the crew was off, the attending destroyers were given orders to sink the hulk of the Ward. USS O'Brien did the job - ironically under the command of one William Outerbridge. Three years to the day since his first command entered its name into the history books, he was ordered to sink it.

Got an A on the paper, too.

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Originally Posted by Growler (Post 1548638)

On an entirely thread-related note, I recently submitted a college paper for review, written about DD139 USS Ward, and her commander, William Outerbridge's actions outside the entrance to Pearl Harbor on the morning of the attack: the first official American shots of the war, and the first US sinking of a hostile submarine of the war, all occurred a little over an hour before the first Japanese aircraft appeared in the Sunday morning skies over Oahu.

Turned out that the reviewer on my paper is directly related to an USS O'Brien crewman. For those unfamiliar with the story, Ward was converted to a fast transport for the island-hopping campaign.

On the morning of 7 Dec 44, near Ormoc, she was struck by a single kamikaze. Initial reports were optimistic; the damage did not appear to be severe, and there was only one crewman injured by the strike. The fires spread quickly, however, and soon jeopardized the ship's ammo stowage. Ward's skipper gave the abandon ship command, and other destroyers in the area pulled alongside to help evacuate the ship.

Once the crew was off, the attending destroyers were given orders to sink the hulk of the Ward. USS O'Brien did the job - ironically under the command of one William Outerbridge. Three years to the day since his first command entered its name into the history books, he was ordered to sink it.

Got an A on the paper, too.

I actually did not know this story. Thank you for sharing it with us!

Glad to share. I knew some of the story before I started, but once I started the real research, it just kept getting more and more interesting. I had to go back and heavily edit the paper for length - it was WAY over the max for the assignment.

It was an honor to work in the paper, though, at least for me. There was a cloud of doubt over Ward's claim of the midget sub for a number of years, but that was finally dispelled in the early 2000's when a team from Hawai'i Underwater Research Lab found the wreck with a 4" hole in the conning tower, just like Outerbridge reported.