[Leica] Pictures of the attack on Pearl Harbor

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Larry, Mark
What the attack did was to eliminate the republican opposition in  
Congress to declaring war on Japan and Germany.
Up to that point Roosevelt had had an awful time summoning enough  
votes to just get lend lease passed so that Britain
could have the materiel to hang on until American attitudes had  
changed enough that American would come into the war.
It was a very close thing!
Cheers
Howard (who reads political history for fun)
> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:53:22 -0500
> From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 44, Issue 86
> To: lug at leica-users.org
>
> Mark writes:
> Whatever the origin of the pictures, they do illustrate the terrifying
> effects of a major attack.  I haven't read much about the history of  
> the
> Pacific war, but that attack must have really hurt the US's capability
> to wage war for quite some considerable time.  How long did it take to
> rebuild those ships and train replacement sailors and marines?
>
> - - - - - -
>
> I'm not a military historian but it is my belief that the Japanese  
> Pearl
> Harbor attack did not achieve its objectives regardless of the  
> number of
> ships sunk and people killed. The attack occurred at a time when naval
> warfare was changing from a combat between ships at comparatively  
> short
> range using cannons to one where ships battled at long range using  
> aircraft.
> The US carrier fleet was not in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and  
> escaped
> intact. The subsequent battle of Midway was largely a carrier  
> operation
> which inflicted disproportionate losses on the Japanese navy and  
> turned the
> tide of the Pacific war.
> Larry Z
>