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Well we all know what happened.
I just want to post some random thoughts. I won't make a silly poll this time around about the attack being justified or not. It really doesn't matter, it's all history anyways. Obviously they felt it was justified at the time.
I want to use this thread to honour all of those involved- on both sides. The japanese were called cowardly for their surprise attack. But I feel otherwise. It was a legitimate military target, it's not like they were targeting unarmed civilians. The U.S. probably should have been more prepared. There was a world war going on, and they did recently put an embargo on Japan I believe. It was a fantastic attack.
A few months ago I read some shipboard logs of the account. Truelly fascinating- esp. for someone who has served in the navy and knows about logs. I would like to find some more logs and accounts of the attack. It has always fascinated me. I sometimes wondered what would happen if my ship was attacked while I was on watch. Well it wouldn't be pretty. The U.S. navy is very unprepared for such an attack. Basically ships in port are sitting ducks. Even moreso today. Many people live off the ship- myself included much of the time I was stationed onboard. Back in 1941 most sailors lived on board the ship and were able to man the guns and get the steam plants up and get some ships underway!. I'm most interested in steam plant operation as that was my job. And I was always amazed at the ships that got underway. Because I knew on my ship our engineering duty section consistied of maybe one or two fireroom and one or two steam room personnel at most. I can't imagine the CIC (command information center) would have a well stocked duty section. The CIC, I believe, is where all the guns are controlled. They may be able to get the guns active without someone actually at the station. And don't get me started on nuclear powered ships. Sure in an emergency you can exceed heat-up rates on a nuclear reactor. But it is still going to take some time to get those plants up- depending on how they are layed up. If the plants are in hot standby, then you can get one plant up fairly fast.
As long as I'm alive, this anniversery will never go forgotten.
just some of those involved
I just want to post some random thoughts. I won't make a silly poll this time around about the attack being justified or not. It really doesn't matter, it's all history anyways. Obviously they felt it was justified at the time.
I want to use this thread to honour all of those involved- on both sides. The japanese were called cowardly for their surprise attack. But I feel otherwise. It was a legitimate military target, it's not like they were targeting unarmed civilians. The U.S. probably should have been more prepared. There was a world war going on, and they did recently put an embargo on Japan I believe. It was a fantastic attack.
A few months ago I read some shipboard logs of the account. Truelly fascinating- esp. for someone who has served in the navy and knows about logs. I would like to find some more logs and accounts of the attack. It has always fascinated me. I sometimes wondered what would happen if my ship was attacked while I was on watch. Well it wouldn't be pretty. The U.S. navy is very unprepared for such an attack. Basically ships in port are sitting ducks. Even moreso today. Many people live off the ship- myself included much of the time I was stationed onboard. Back in 1941 most sailors lived on board the ship and were able to man the guns and get the steam plants up and get some ships underway!. I'm most interested in steam plant operation as that was my job. And I was always amazed at the ships that got underway. Because I knew on my ship our engineering duty section consistied of maybe one or two fireroom and one or two steam room personnel at most. I can't imagine the CIC (command information center) would have a well stocked duty section. The CIC, I believe, is where all the guns are controlled. They may be able to get the guns active without someone actually at the station. And don't get me started on nuclear powered ships. Sure in an emergency you can exceed heat-up rates on a nuclear reactor. But it is still going to take some time to get those plants up- depending on how they are layed up. If the plants are in hot standby, then you can get one plant up fairly fast.
As long as I'm alive, this anniversery will never go forgotten.
just some of those involved
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