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December 7, 1941
Eighty years ago a 20mm round went through this column in Hanger 6 on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, HI.
In 1985 I took a small crew over there and demolished it. I saved this piece, the other 800 tons were sent to Korea. Pearl Harbor beam.jpg
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Eugene |
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Larry |
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You need a small tag to inform people that it is not junk but a memorial.
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Don Papenburg |
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Good point Don. Maybe a cast plaque. I sent about ten pieces back to the Bay Area in a container for the owner and estimators. Each piece had different damage so they looked like scrap to the uniformed in the yard and during a cleanup they were sent to the recycler.
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December 7.
Right now a friend of mine is in Palau doing some work. He says that the Japanese artillery guns are still in place up on the hilltops, with their cartridge magazines scattered all around. And life goes on.
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Kent http://www.tinmantech.com "All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919. |
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Around 1949 my father was stationed in Hawaii and acquired Mahogany planks from Hickam Field still having bullet holes form Dec. 7. He turned it into furniture and still uses it today. We but a plaque on them with the history for the future.
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John Phillips "bustin rust and eating dust" |
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