The exhibition runs through January 7, 2017, and features artifacts showing Japanese ambitions. These are contrasted with the Hawaii island paradise of hula girls in photos taken by U.S. servicemen stationed there
Then ,there was the attack involving more than 300 Japanese fighter planes and bombers that killed more than 2,000 Americans and wounded more than 1,000 more. It destroyed or damaged scores of U.S. ships and planes.
In effect, it almost single-handedly knocked us out of the war in the Pacific in one deft stroke.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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