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Dec 23, 2002 10:02 AM
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There are a number of Pearl Harbor Survivors in Lake County California, including one of my brothers in law. This year, several of them assembled photographs of the ships or bases where they served on that day and made a calendar in which one of those ships/Bases photos graces the face page, identified by name and the survivor who served there, and the name of their sweetheart. It kinda chokes one up.
I also noticed just how sleek and graceful some of the earlier BB's were. West Virginia, Tennessee and California were simply works of naval architechtural art. Compare the Iowa class to those beauties, and the new BB's are ugly brutes with no visible purpose but slaughter on the high seas. An amazing revelation to come so late.
God Bless those guys and their beautiful gals. We owe them more than we can ever offer them.
". . . he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one" Luke 22.36:.
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Feb 2, 2003 9:20 PM
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For most of my life (old enough for active recall of WWII) I heard a tale of an American Destroyer attempting to escape Pearl harbor that detects a Japanese submarine and sinks it with depth charges. It is a big feature of the beginning of both the book and movie of "Harm's Way" and I always considered it fiction. My brother in law would never speak of his war experiences until after my mother's death and I and my daughter and her husband (a Navy Veteran with four years sevice aboard the Pellilieu) and kids spent a Fourth of July Weekend with them at their home in Lake county.
One beautiful night, my son in law asked my brother in law about his WWII experiences. Lo and behold! He spoke! He went on for hours! To my absolute amazement, he confirmed the story of the sortying Destroyer sinking a Japanese submarine: he was serving on it, the USS Ramsey!
How about that to confirm a fairy tale as fact!
". . . he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one" Luke 22.36:.
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Re: Pearl Harbor survivors
Feb 21, 2003 3:08 PM
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Thank you for this piece of history. I too had always heard that story and thought it was fiction.
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Feb 23, 2003 12:01 PM
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Glad to be of service, and proud to be related to the man who lived it.
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding." Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Re: Pearl Harbor survivors
Mar 19, 2005 6:45 AM
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Can you share more details, I'm working on a paper and would love to use this information. I too thought this was a fairy tale.
Thanks!
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Apr 8, 2005 10:44 PM
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If you can get ahold of a copy of "Day of Infamy" by Walter Lord it will give you a lot of the information as well. The book is an excellent read so keeping your attention should not be a problem. Page 34 - it discusses the Ward's participation in that confrontation.
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Nov 30, 2005 3:42 PM
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that brother in law is now one of the growing number of victims of Alzheimer's disease, and it is not good to get him to dwell on events long past as he has enough trouble connecting to today as it is.
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Re: Pearl Harbor survivors
Nov 21, 2009 5:23 PM
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My father was on board the USS Curtiss AV4 he saw
the midget submarine lining up on the Curtiss. They tried to train their 5inch gun on it. The number four gun top side put a hole through the conning tower. The charge did not
explode it hit and when through it. The USS Monaghan was
steaming out of the harbor because USS Curtiss signalman
motioned to it that there was a submarine in the harbor.
Life magazine artists recreated it in 1942 showing the USS Monaghan firing on it and then as my dad said they rammed it and dept charged it in about forty feet of water.
Both torpedoes were fired by the sub I-22 but missed the respective targets. One torpedo slammed into the docks at Pearl City. There is a painting at the Glenn Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport that recreates the scene also.
David Quinlan son of John Quinlan Pearl Harbor survivor
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