Amazing photographs of Pearl Harbor - 1941 and 2013

Mushroom · Jan 13, 2014

I just found this article, but it is amazing.

Mass Communication Specialist Diana Quinlan made the following amazing photographs, where she took photographs at the exact same location of a photo taken on 7 December 1941, and combined the 1941 shot with a shot from the same location in 2013. Absolutely stunning.

Absolutely stunning.

All Hands Online : Official Magazine of the U.S. Navy

There is also a video presentation with the same photographs:

[video=youtube;ElGxN2yGiZ8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGxN2yGiZ8[/video]

Wizard From Oz · Jan 13, 2014

Mushroom said: ↑

I just found this article, but it is amazing.

Mass Communication Specialist Diana Quinlan made the following amazing photographs, where she took photographs at the exact same location of a photo taken on 7 December 1941, and combined the 1941 shot with a shot from the same location in 2013. Absolutely stunning.
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Thanks for sharing, I agree absolutely stunnig stuff

waltky · Nov 11, 2015

Remains of 7 Pearl Harbor 'Unknowns' Identified...

Military Identifies Remains of 7 Pearl Harbor 'Unknowns'
Nov 10, 2015 | The remains of seven crew members missing since the USS Oklahoma capsized in the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have been identified, the military said Monday.

The names of the servicemen identified using dental records will be released after their families have been notified. In June, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began digging up the remains of nearly 400 USS Oklahoma sailors and Marines from a veterans cemetery in Honolulu where they were buried as "unknowns." Within five years, officials expect to identify about 80 percent of the Oklahoma crew members still considered missing. The military says it started the project because advances in forensic science and technology are improving the ability to identify remains.

Military pallbearers salute over the exhumed remains of unidentified crew members of the USS Oklahoma killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor.

On Monday, officials exhumed the last four of 61 caskets containing unknown people from the Oklahoma. Many of the caskets include the remains of multiple individuals. Families will have the option of receiving remains as they are identified, or waiting until the agency has more pieces of a body or even a complete skeleton. Navy casualty officers will let families know their options.

Altogether, 429 men on board the World War II battleship were killed. Only 35 were identified in the years immediately after. Identification work will be conducted at agency laboratories in Hawaii and Nebraska. DNA analysis will be conducted at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. More than 2,400 sailors, Marines and soldiers were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Oklahoma's casualties were second only to the USS Arizona, which lost 1,177 men.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/...entifies-remains-7-pearl-harbor-unknowns.html
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waltky · Dec 7, 2015

America remembers attack on Pearl Harbor...

US Remembers Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7
December 07, 2015 - Monday is the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

In 1941, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared the December 7 attack as "a date which will live in infamy," with the U.S. declaring war on Japan a day later and entering World War II. More than 2,400 American sailors and others were killed in the sneak attack on what is now a U.S. island state in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In this file image provided by the U.S. Navy, crewmen of the USS Nevada still fight flames on the battleship, battered in the Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Now, Japan is a staunch U.S. ally and there are a fast-dwindling number of aging American veterans who fought in World War II. However, a 110-year-old veteran -- Frank Levingston from Louisiana -- will be the guest of honor at the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Washington. And the National Park Service along with the U.S. Navy will hold a memorial service at Pearl Harbor's Kilo Pier.

http://www.voanews.com/content/us-remembers-pearl-harbor-attack/3091854.html
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Attack on Pearl Harbor Remembered
Dec 07, 2015 | At five minutes to eight o'clock, on a Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, in Hawaii, Japanese planes attacked the United States military base at Pearl Harbor. An hour later, a second wave of Japanese planes continued the attack. By 9:45 a.m. (local Hawaii time), the attack was finished, with all but 29 Japanese planes returning to the safety of their aircraft carriers.

The attack on Pearl Harbor wiped out approximately half of America's military airpower in the Pacific Theater; severely damaged eight Navy battleships, three destroyers and three cruisers; demolished the battleships U.S.S. Oklahama and Arizona; and killed more than 2,300 American servicemen. Pearl Harbor also spurred an isolationist America into World War II. Directly and indirectly, the attack, during the course of the next three-plus years, led the United States to enlist 11.2 million soldiers, 4.2 million sailors, nearly 670,000 Marines, more than 240,000 members of the Coast Guard (the U.S. Air Force had not been created at this time and airpower was under the Army's purview). American manufacturers produced 296,000 planes, 102,000 tanks, 88,000 ships and landing craft during the course of World War II.

Of the attack on Pearl Harbor, historian Paul Johnson writes, "Thus America, hitherto rendered ineffectual by its remoteness, its divisions, and its pusillanimous leadership, found itself instantly united, angry, and committed to wage total war with all its outraged strength." Speaking to a joint session of Congress, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called Pearl Harbor "a date which will live in infamy." America declared war on Japan. Soon, Germany's Adolf Hitler officially drew the U.S. into the European conflict by declaring war on America. Though committed to the task of winning the war, there are myths about the consequences of Pearl Harbor.

Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor.

Despite anger concerning the attack, every able-bodied, American male did not immediately rush to enlist to wage war. There was a surge in recruitment following the attack, but "contrary to much later mythology, the nation's young men did not step forward in unison to answer the trumpet's call, neither before nor after Pearl Harbor (and) deferments were coveted," writes historian David M. Kennedy on America's Selective Service process of the early 1940s. The nation's politicians did not set partisan criticism aside for the "common cause." Some people accused Roosevelt of placing the naval forces in Pearl Harbor to intentionally bait the Japanese into an attack (though little evidence has been supplied to support this claim).

Though World War II was one of the most popularly supported wars in American history, there remained periods when people jumped off the patriotic band wagon to voice other concerns. Historian Howard Zinn notes there were approximately 14,000 labor strikes during the war years, with 1 million workers striking from the nation's mines, steel mills, auto and transportation-equipment industries at various times during 1944, a crucial period of the war since the D-Day invasion occurred that same year. Still, these issues aside, following Pearl Harbor, "the United States had embarked on a mobilization of human, physical, and financial resources without precedent in history," Johnson writes. And this spirit of commitment won the war.

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