Sunday, August 22, 2021

I've never seen this before - have you?

With all the movies and documentaries made about the attack on Pearl Harbor, I was never aware there was real eyewitness film - this good - of the attack. 
A nice little documentary about this guy's
 filming of the attack. Take a look.

This short documentary tells the story of Harold & Eda Oberg, & the film footage they recorded of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.  The couple captured shots during & after the attack on Hickam Army Airfield.
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Here's some more, but as good quality as his:

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A good tutorial on the attack that's worth reading:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/distance-learning/k-12-distance-learning/video-archive/clip-how-did-japan-attack
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There's a good reason for reflecting on these events, especially in light of the pending 20th anniversary of 9/11. At some point some entity somewhere is going to look at us and see how weak we appear right now. They'll try us again - sadly. You can almost bet the ranch on it.
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This is the weakness they see. Two idiots with masks on pretending to be important. It's frightening, yes, but importantly, it's frighteningly real. This is your leadership today.
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Take a look out your front door
at the American flag on your pole. 
Maybe it's time to replace it and show 
better colors for the love of your country.


Celebrate America by buying American-made.
You'll find it right here for under $ 19 bucks:
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2 comments:

  1. NSA documents prove that the Allies had cracked the German codes and then the Japanese codes. " In 1979 the NSA released 2,413 JN-25 orders of the 26,581 intercepted by US between Sept 1 and Dec 4, 1941. The NSA says "We know now that they contained important details concerning the existence, organization, objective, and even the whereabouts of the Pearl Harbor Strike Force." (Parker p 21) Of the over thousand radio messages sent by Tokyo to the attack fleet, only 20 are in the National Archives. All messages to the attack fleet were sent several times, at least one message was sent every odd hour of the day and each had a special serial number. Starting in early November 1941 when the attack fleet assembled and started receiving radio messages, OP-20-G stayed open 24 hours a day and the "First Team" of codebreakers worked on JN-25. In November and early December 1941, OP-20-G spent 85 percent of its effort reading Japanese Navy traffic, 12 percent on Japanese diplomatic traffic and 3 percent on German naval codes. FDR was personally briefed twice a day on JN-25 traffic by his aide, Captain John Beardell, and demanded to see the original raw messages in English. The US Government refuses to identify or declassify any pre-Dec 7, 1941 decrypts of JN-25 on the basis of national security, a half-century after the war."

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