Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00035)

> On December 7, 1941 a surprise Japanese air-attack over Pearl
Harbor resulted in 4574 casualties (killed, injured, and missing), 177
aircraft, two destroyers, two squadron minesweepers and a lot of
smaller vessels destroyed. That day went into US history as a "day of
infamy". This has been pounded into the heads of all American
schoolchildren for the last 60 years. But what's been beaten out of
their heads just as insistently?

DK>>>>>>>>>>
Only 2 destroyers, and two minesweepers got hit? Where did all those
battleships come from that we all see burning from the old news-reels?

I have been in Pearl Harbor (about 50 years ago), and at that time the
Battleship Arizona was sitting at the bottom of the bay, still leaking
oil, and still in commission, even though sunk.

These wild fantacies of yours make for interesting reading, but you
should remember that some of us have been around more than a couple of
years, and know enough to know that you are not dealing with a full
deck, so to speak.

If the battleships had not been destroyed, we would have fought most
of the Pacific war with battleships, which is what the admirals
preferred being on, rather than with aircraft carriers.

I was in the Navy over there in the early 1950s, and your "facts"
don't square with reality, that I have seen and experienced.

Dennis