Survivor

[m22mike]

Dog
Thanks much for posting those shots, had never seen some of those.
My Father in Law,RIP,was at Hicham Field that morning.
One Carrier, I think the USS Enterprize, was out at sea on the 7th, and steamed into Pearl the next morning.
When I was in the Navy abord the USS Kearsarge CVS 33 we were headed to the Gulf Of Tonkin from Long Beach, 1969 ?
During that time they were filming the movie Tora Tora Tora. Our #33 on the tower was painted over,and we did not man the rail that morning, the filght deck was bare of any equipment. As we entered Pearl we were being filmed for what turned out to be about a one second shot in the begining of the movie.
It was really cool to watch, but very somber, there were alot of fires and wrecked stuff burning to make it look like the next morning.
Also in that same movie you will see the USS Yorktown CV 10
acting as the Jap carrier that launched the attack aircraft.
I find it interesting to note that as the years go by that less and less is written it the paper about that day.
To the 5000 + that died that day..RIP..
Mike