Dec. 7th, 2014, 73 years later.

I Ratant said:
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Doing "nothing" in March, 1941...
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Making stuff, and the UK was buying it. Needed it too, so that's OK.
Britain will settle its World War II debts to the US and Canada when it pays two final instalments before the close of 2006, the Treasury has said. The payments of $83.25m (£42.5m) to the US and US$22.7m (£11.6m) to Canada are the last of 50 instalments since 1950.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6215847.stm
 
John Jones said:
My mother-in-law remembers when the Japanese invaded the PI. She's still angry about it.
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My mother was on the west coast at the time. She had friends taken to camps or whose whole family disappeared overnight. Her sisters had friends who were going to war. In a weird way she has a lot of empathy for the Japanese people, but not Japanese organizations. When I was a kid we hosted a Japanese family that had recently moved to the states, but at about the same time she was furious when my dad bought a Honda over her objections.
 
Dr. Keith said:
My mother was on the west coast at the time. She had friends taken to camps or whose whole family disappeared overnight. Her sisters had friends who were going to war. In a weird way she has a lot of empathy for the Japanese people, but not Japanese organizations. When I was a kid we hosted a Japanese family that had recently moved to the states, but at about the same time she was furious when my dad bought a Honda over her objections.
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http://www.amazon.com/Those-Wonderful-Folks-Pearl-Harbor/dp/0671205714
 
Gawdzilla said:
Sweet!
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I remember back in the day seeing some production footage of a Pearl Harbor movie made by your papa :) Model work in that was not bad, though the scale was not as good as Tora Tora Tora
 
MG1962 said:
I remember back in the day seeing some production footage of a Pearl Harbor movie made by your papa :) Model work in that was not bad, though the scale was not as good as Tora Tora Tora
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Not many people know that the IJN attack was the second plan, the first involved three really large Japanese dudes. :eye-poppi
 

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Gawdzilla said:
Not many people know that the IJN attack was the second plan, the first involved three really large Japanese dudes. :eye-poppi
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That issue of "FORTUNE" had to available around the world at that time, and yet... the implications of the US manufacturing capability was not noted by the enemies who would attack.
 
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