The Oberg Color Film Footage of Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941

Good evening, my friend SGT John " Mac " McConnell and thank you for sharing the Oberg Color Film Footage of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Color film was not very common in those days and it is wonderful to see life in late 1941 on Hawaii on that beautiful day which became a Day of infamy. I am reminded that September 11, 2001 was also a beautiful day weather wise.

Over the next 4 years, we mobilized industry and the draft system to flesh out the military services Army [including the relatively new Army Air Corps and Tank Corps], Navy, and Marines [ each with their own air corps.]
Landing in Tunisia on 17 November 1942 [Operation Torch] and on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942 [Operation Watchtower] were costly in terms of casualties [mainly disease in the jungles and swamps of Guadalcanal]. Lessons learned were quickly applied to change tactics and over a longer period to modify weapons and equipment. As always the American fighting man used ingenuity to develop local solutions to seemingly intractable problems.

FYI ] LTC Orlando Illi Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown CMSgt (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSgt Boyd Herrst] SSG Ray Adkins SGT Carl Beerbaur SGT Charles H. Hawes SSG Martin Byrne PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CPT Gabe SnellLTC Greg Henning

What a treasure. Thanks for sharing SGT John " Mac " McConnell

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