[303rd-Talk] Remember Pearl Harbor Today

[Bill Jones]

I too was not born yet (born a bit more than a year later on a AAF base), so I 
obviously have no memory of Pearl Harbor (I do remember VE day though). 

   However I have one picture from my father's collection.  It was a picture 
of him and a few other young pilots in front of a PT19 trainer.  It didn't 
register with me until years later that the date on the picture was Dec 8 
1941, ie the day after Pearl.  So these guys all thought that they were headed 
to the Pacific.  One of the guys in the picture signed the picture with a 
"watch the Japs" note.  Kind of made me wonder to what extent they knew how 
big a deal this war was going to become, or if they thought it would be over 
fast. 

 http://wejones.ftdata.com/Dec8tulsa.html   




Bill Jones         N3JLQ
Sweden Maine
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