WWII Items - December 7th Edition...

Hello All... I wanted to do this earlier today, But I just got in... I figured that I would post the few little items that I have that are related with December 7th, 1941.

I believe that everybody knows the history so I won't go into details of it... But will discuss the items themselves...

I may make some comments as I go.

First off...

First up is a Home front item as seen in my avatar. People on the home front wore these. It's a button about the size of a quarter. I picked it on at an Antique store in Arkansas while on a Motorcycle ride.




Secondly is a Complete newspaper from my home state. Once I read it, which I haven't yet, I will frame it. Because of the Home state and complete paper I paid a little for it.







Second is a Front page only of another Newspaper. I got this at a steal. This item is already framed.



Before I go on... I am going to give a little History Lesson here... The USS Oklahoma was commissioned in 1916, and served in WWI... She was later sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. when she took serval torpedos and Capsized trapped hundreds of men below Decks. A total of 429 crew were killed.

In 1943, Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. Unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay.



The next Item is a small paper item. You Navy guys can give more information than I can. But these little pieces were known as "Chits". They were given to Sailor in Advance of receiving pay so they could buy items from the Ships store such as Cigarettes, Chocolate, etc. I have this piece in a small frame.




This next item was standard issue throughout the war to all Services. As the title explains it is a Song and Service for Ship and Field... So Chaplains could hold Church Services in both Ship and Field as titled.. The Book is divided into three parts... Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. There were tens of thousands of these printed up and distributed throughout all theaters of the war.










But there is one thing that separates this Song and Service Book from all the Rest... and it is this.. It is Stamped with this...




and Ironically This Service book was printed 1941.. The very year that the Oklahoma was Sunk at Pearl Harbor.
I can only speculate, but one of three things had to have happened. Either the book made it to the ship and it was either:
A: Taken off the ship by a sailor before the Attack.
B: It was printed and never made it to the ship before the Attack.
C: It was aboard the Ship and was found in the salvage efforts.

But the Book shows no sign of Water Damage so I believe that It was printed the same year as the Attack, but never made it to the Ship before the Attack took place.




These are all the items that I own that is related to Pearl Harbor...

There is so much to be said about Pearl Harbor, from the Arizona, the Salvaging of the Oklahoma, the story of Doris Miller... I could go on but I won't... I may later.. I just want to close by saying to you Veterans, both of yesterday and today..

"Thank You" for the Freedom that you provide for me and the Sacrifices that you have made for me and others..








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