From: "Calvin Steinberger"

<cals@valornet.com

To: "Undisclosed Recipients" <cals@valornet.com

Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:20 PM

Subject: Fw: Amazing Photos stored in a Brownnie Camera since 1941

Thanks Jack. Those were some fabulous pictures that were taken by "an old Brownie". I was just a 12 year old kid living in Houston at the time of the attack. I remember going through the "rationing and shortages". Even rubber used in underwear was an item of "shortage". I remember dancing with a young girl, when her panties dropped to her knees. What an embarrassing moment that was for both of us! All houses were instructed by neighborhood civilian defense personnel that we must close our blinds and curtains everynight to keep the light from showing in case we were attacked. My family had to move to Beaumont, TX, where my Dad went to work in the shipyard to help in the war effort.

I remember trying to go to work for a carnaval running the ferris wheel. My parents stayed up all night talking me out of that! I eventually went to work for a bread factory (I won't mention the name). One night the power went out, and us young guys were told to get up into the vats where the bread was rising in our bare feet and stomp the bread to keep it from rising. After the power came back on, the company went ahead and baked the bread for sale. It was two years after that before I could stomach eating the bread made there. When I had moved to Beaumont, the highschool there put me into a class grade higher than I was in Houston. When my family moved back to Houston, my highschool (Lamar High School) kept me in that higher grade, which I really did not like, because all of my old friends were in a grade lower. But such were some of the "disruptions" of that terrible war.

Incidentally, I was raised in West University, and I used to ride my bike out to Bellaire to shoot my 22 rifle while hunting for rabbits. When I entered highschool, there were only 7 highschools in the metropolitan area of Houston!!!!!! Oh well, enough of my reminising, I won't bore you with more. Thanks for listening.

Regards, Cal

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From: "Jack Muff" <jackmuff@wildblue.net

To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mail1.wildblue.net

Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:56 PM

Subject: Amazing Photos stored in a Brownnie Camera since 1941

Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941. Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker.

THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O. I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR!

PEARL HARBOR

December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii . By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carr iers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island, where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States.)

In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu, he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.

At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack. When it was over, the U.S. losses were:

Casualties

USA< /st1:country-region : 218 KIA, 364 WIA.

USN: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.

USMC: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.

Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA. TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.

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Battleships

USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the

harbor.

USS California (BB-44) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.

USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and

repaired.

USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage.

USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage.

USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage.

USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.

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Cruisers

USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage..

USS San Francisco (CA38) - Light Damage.

USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage.

USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired.

USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage.

USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..

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Destroyers

USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged.

USS Cassin - (DD-37 2) Destroyed. Parts salvaged.

USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage.

USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.

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Minelayer

USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.

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Seaplane Tender

USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.

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Repair Ship

USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.

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Harbor Tug

USS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.

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Aircraft

188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)