|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
12-07-2011, 06:22 AM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Lindenhurst, IL
Posts: 792
|
Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
I don't know where mine was but I would like to honor all of our Service personnel on Pearl Harbor Day, God Bless.
GW |
12-07-2011, 07:03 AM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Washington Court House, Ohio
Posts: 177
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
I second that. May we never forgert.
|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
12-07-2011, 07:28 AM | #3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Savannah, GA
Posts: 1,300
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
I wonder how many were in Honolulu, Pearl, Scofield barracks, Hickham Field on that Sunday morning, with the blocks cooling off after returning from a Saturday night on the town.
__________________
20 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Steve Jobs, and Bob Hope. Now we have no Cash, no Jobs, and no Hope...please don't let Kevin Bacon die! |
12-07-2011, 07:51 AM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 451
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
My wife's father was a flagman on the Hornet (CV-8) when it was hit in the Coral Islands. A Japanese plane flew into the carriers tower, and her father died from burns received in the resulting fire. He was a flagman on the deck when it happened, fuel was everywhere. The Japanese pilot ended up far from his plane in the ship's galley, dead of course, but body intact.
The Hornet listed heavily and was sunk by our own navy a day or two later. This remained classified information for about six months before the public was informed. A new, un-named carrier being built was christaned the USS Hornet (the seventh Hornet in US Naval history) the CV-12, and is now on display in Alameda, CA. My wife has all the newspaper articles her grandmother saved and they are incredible to read. I know this isn't Pearl, but it seems fitting to remember this incident also. Thank you to all veterans, this day and always, Richard |
12-07-2011, 09:04 AM | #5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: new britain,ct 06052
Posts: 9,390
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
Amen.
Paul in CT |
12-07-2011, 09:17 AM | #6 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: NC
Posts: 2,975
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)
|
12-07-2011, 09:27 AM | #7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Yorktown, VA
Posts: 139
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
My 31 SW Sedan was being used as family transportation and a service car by my Grandfather. He owned and operated a repair shop in Columbus Grove, OH.
|
12-07-2011, 05:17 PM | #8 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Danvers, Ma.
Posts: 712
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
My '31 pick up was working on a farm in New Hampshire. My '31 Slant sedan was being considered for "scrap drives" I'll bet!
|
12-07-2011, 05:33 PM | #9 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Savannah, GA
Posts: 1,300
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
What was the original name of this hull? I remember reading that there was considerable consternation at angering Neptune by changing a name post keel laying.
__________________
20 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Steve Jobs, and Bob Hope. Now we have no Cash, no Jobs, and no Hope...please don't let Kevin Bacon die! |
12-07-2011, 05:53 PM | #10 |
BANNED
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 956
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
The truck was servicing equipment in the orange groves and sawmill the original owner had, the Roadster was likely still running the streets of Troy, AL. Not sure about the others as I don't know much history on them.
|
12-07-2011, 06:27 PM | #11 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Central FL, USA
Posts: 1,138
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
My '31 roadster was built in Virginia originally and I bought it in Virginia last year. So I expect it was running around Virginia on Dec. 7, 1941. Side note: My Dad lost two friends on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th. He also spent 4 years in the Pacific because of the Japs. He never could
understand why people would buy Jap made products. God rest his soul. Bob-A |
12-07-2011, 06:56 PM | #12 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 730
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
|
12-07-2011, 11:54 PM | #13 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Luck WI
Posts: 550
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
Let's remember, and be thankful every day for those who gave so much to protect the freedoms we enjoy.
__________________
Jon "If you choose to not decide, you still have made a choice!" RUSH Don't tell me what you know..... Tell me what you have done. |
12-08-2011, 12:11 AM | #14 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Billerica, Ma
Posts: 461
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
Mine was pulling stumps in were NH.
I knew a few men who were there. One man in particular told me his experience with such emotion and such depth it made me feel like i had been there. This man was a metal artisan, and this conversation came about one day when i asked him when and were he learned how to use a torch ( he was given a torch for the first time at pearl harbor to cut holes in the Arizona after she sank to try and rescue men) the two things if you joke about around me that will get your teeth knocked out, pearl and 9/11 blessed be. |
12-08-2011, 12:02 PM | #15 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: La Mesa Ca
Posts: 1,166
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
I pieced my '28 roadster pickup together from swap meets in 1968 (total cost $147) so I guess it came from all over SoCal.
|
12-08-2011, 12:25 PM | #16 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 5,906
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
Quote:
__________________
Ray Horton, Portland, OR As you go through life, keep your eye on the donut, not the hole. |
|
12-08-2011, 12:26 PM | #17 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alpharetta, Georgia (Atlanta)
Posts: 272
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
My 30 Roadster was sitting in a garage at a large mansion estate in Bar Harbor Maine. Bought by the matron of the home for a month in the summer of 1930 for a niece to use during a visit. Then put up on blocks in a large garage. Purchased by my grandfather for my father in April of 1945 and had never been moved from 1930 to then.
|
12-08-2011, 03:51 PM | #18 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Cape Cod MA
Posts: 2,840
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
I remember December 7, 1941 well. It was a Sunday and here in New England we heard the news on the radio about the Pearl Harbor attack early in the afternoon, because of the time difference from Hawaii their early morning was our early afternoon. My 1930 Coupe which I still own and drive was parked in the driveway most of the day and may not have been driven at all that day as we stayed close to the radio once we had heard of the attack.
|
12-08-2011, 03:59 PM | #19 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ronan, Montana
Posts: 158
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
A day late as usual, but Bernice was probably in the Indianapolis area selling insurance. 31 slant window sedan. roadster pu didn't exist.
|
12-08-2011, 06:07 PM | #20 |
Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: northport mi
Posts: 87
|
Re: Where was your "A" 70 years ago today?
My station wagon was in Maine at a fishing camp I was on a corner in Detroit selling newspapers EXTRA-EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR.
|
|
|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|