[Leica] Pictures of the attack on Pearl Harbor

[gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo)]

Howard,

 

The US did not declare war on Germany, only on Japan. Germany declared war 
on the US only after the US declaration of war against Japan.

 

Greg Lorenzo

Calgary, Canada
 
> From: cummer at netvigator.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 05:35:04 +0800
> Subject: [Leica] Pictures of the attack on Pearl Harbor
> 
> 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
> >
> 
> 
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