Bullet Holes at Pearl Harbor Still Exist
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- Amazing to see this preserved Pearl Harbor history.
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I went a couple years back and they had a veteran sitting in the middle of that hanger at a table. No one seemed to want to talk to him so my bro and I went up to him and asked him some things. Turns out he was in that hanger on the day of the attack so those bullet holes were a sobering reminder of how close to death he got that day. ALWAYS MAKE TIME TO TALK TO WW2 VETS
Indeed. I was the CEO at a veterans nursing home. There were several WW 2 residents. What stories, what experiences. They were alwAys glad to share.
I met a survivor at that hangar as well - may have been the same gentleman - back in 2015. Mr. Dick Girocco who was a flight engineer on a PBY Catalina. Amazing stories he could tell from that day. He has since passed. I consider myself fortunate and honored to have spent some time with him.
There are not many left...
would of been the first guy I'd of spoke to once I clocked him..even tho I've never been I feel like I know the place from medal of honour Pacific assault
- I saw a very old man, in a restaurant, with a hat. The hat said "BATAAN." Jesus...I went over, and asked him, and yep, he was on the Death March. I paid for his son's, and his meal. He was 96.
My family and I visited the Pearl Harbor Memorial back in 2018. It was an honor for us to visit. The most emotional part of the memorial is that the USS Arizona is a permanent tomb, veterans who had served on that ship have the option of interring their urns. According to the tour guide when the scuba divers put the urns into the ship, the urns automatically fit into place. Telling the families that the sailors have returned to be with their fellow sailors and have returned to service. Truly remarkable.
I can’t even imagine looking down in the water and seeing that ship, makes me tear up just thinking of it. Thank you for sharing🙏🏼
Wait what? So they left them sealed in there for decades, to finally dive in and pull them out, to cremate and put em in urns, to stick em back in the ship?
@@ION400 Those who “had” served on her can have their remains placed in the tomb
@@duncandmcgrath6290 !Ohhh gotcha that makes sense so they can be with their brothers
@@ION400 no, they are placing cremated remains of survivors of December 7th, 1941 so they may be buried with their former shipmates.
My father, Joseph William PAYTON Sr. was a survivor not just of Pearl Harbor, but a previous night survivor of a B-17 practice run that ran out of fuel. He was also in The Hickam Field mess hall when the bombs came through. He then spent the next 3-1/2 years fighting in Japanese Air combat as a bombardier-waist gunner. He produced some legacy. My brother Joseph William Payton Jr. whom I lost last 8/4/22 to COVID was a USAF Staff Master Seargent, his son, my namesake, was a USAF Captain. His son will soon be a USAF 1st. Lt. After ROTC. My Dad would be so proud, I miss him, but I do not miss his PTSD suffering. That decent man was so tormented. RIP DAD.
That's a incredible story and thanks for yours and your family's service.
How long did it take you to come up with that?
What an inspiring family
@@oalfonzo8004 Less than 1 minute, because every single word is true. I will not reply to you again. I wish you well.
@@richardpayton7261 omg wow u want a cookie?
My grandpa was on Ford island when it got attack and he along with some other Mechanic's got locked into a hanger by the navy and were told you guard these planes with your lives!!! That's some scary stuff! he said bullets were ripping through the hangers that was the most frightened he said he was in the whole war!! He survived the war and lived a very productive life. RIP grandpa!
Lol how long did it take you to come up with that?
I recceived news today that a relative who died on 12-7-41 on the USS Oklahoma, his remains have been identified and will be buried in the midwest in his hometown in April or May.
👍❤️🇺🇸
@bodybuilderslave where was he from?
I appreciate his service and his sacrifice, and I'm very glad to hear that he's finally going home with full recognition.
As a retired USAF veteran, while serving, I visited Hickam AFB on three occasions for temporary (TDY) duty. There are several buildings on the base that were standing during the attack. Although they have been renovated there are numerous pock marks from the aircraft's guns on the exterior walls that were never repaired. They serve as a constant reminder of that day!
Visited Hickam in 93; rode my bike to the Passenger Terminal, and every day took a different route, to see all the history. YES, the hangars had scars still.
When I was stationed on a Submarine out of Pearl Harbor back the mid 1980's the Navy let us store our personally owned automobiles in those hangers when we went on deployment. It was nice to have a place to store our cars, but it's great to see the hangers being used to educate the public about the history of Pearl Harbor.
I've been at that museum and I saw those historic planes. Every time I see a B-17 I often can't help but appreciate the guys who operated them because they flew at high altitudes without pressurization.
My uncle got discharged from the air force due to severe frostbite on a bombing mission when the environmental heat supply for his flight suit got shot up over Africa.
Not only that they had to use pure strength to pull the plane up and down cause there was no electric stuff to help move those flaps up and down and those bottom ball gunners were pretty much set up to die there wasn't much room to move around in the bottom ball turrets and it was cramped in them so any shot hit on them might of always been a fatal shot
how cool! the Amelia Earhart fact was something I didn't know. Loved this tour.
I love the fact that you showed us something a little different then the tour of the ships. That museum was pretty cool. My dad was born and raised on the Island of Kauai. He was 5 years old when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. He remembered certain aspects of it like having to live in black out conditions for almost 5 years. Also, hearing the military shells going over the island. My grandpa got stationed/posted at one of their food bank type of areas to help protect the food supplies. My Dad came to California and stayed when he was 21 years old.
I was homeported at Pearl for 2 years in the late 70's and never took a moment of it for granted. Felt the history every day.
Memorial day at per harbor is a wake up call too
assigned to a ship or the base?
@@derfvader6951 ship. CG-24
@@mikedandurand3548 was on the FFG-1057 in 1980
The clock is ticking...every year less and less WW2 vets are alive to tell their stories.
These brave men (and women) saw things happen that will never make it into history books, but will share them with you...all you have to do is ask...respectfully...and thank them for their service.
As happens unfortunately with all wars. The world moves on and the stories become ink on paper only occasionally read.
The last three years my younger brother served in the Navy, he was stationed in Hawaii. Incredible is all he could say. Thank you for this ❤️
My grandfather was a tsgt usmc airwing mechanic and he was there on dec 7 1941.
Thank You for sharing this! This means a lot to me personally. I was raised by my Grandpa who was there on December 7th. I used to get jolted awake from sleep when he would have his nightmares. Having been in combat myself I can truly understand what he was going through those many years ago. He took me up for my first flight when I was 3 years old. I miss that man dearly! Rip Paw Paw.
I visited Oahu as a teenager and was privileged to go to the USS Arizona, and it happened to be on Memorial Day, so they were doing all sorts of ceremonies and extra things that they didn't normally do. I didn't know about this museum - have to visit it next time I'm there. It's eerie to think our servicemen walked those floors and platforms performing their duties, and the same glass and metal is still there 80 years later. Very surreal. Thank you for the step back in time. Cheers
Was just here in July of 2021. Best trip ever. R.I.P. to all that lost lives
As an Australian, I have visited a couple of air museums here, but that memorial to WW2 and beyond has some incredible aircraft.
A note on the bullet holes, a few theory’s from a tour guide I was with, it was either Japanese bullet holes or on that evening of December 7th, a flight of wildcats came in to land on the island, and trigger happy ground crew opened fire on them since the bullet holes were roughly the size of a 50 caliber.
Also, the stearman you saw was actually flown by president bush.
Never knew the stearman history! It’s actually in Pensacola at the naval aviation museum! I’ve been apart of a few retirement ceremonies there and never knew I was walking right under it! Thank you for this!
Not unusual for shit-scared 'trigger happy' US troops to fire on - and kill - their own and / or their 'allies'.
@@trueaussie9230 you should change that a to p
@@trueaussie9230 You damn right, killing machine! Keeping the world a safer place for now!
@@davidfox326
If you say so.
I've always wanted to go there. Thanks for taking us there virtually. :)
Gotta go!
I was stationed in Hawaii in the late 80s early 90s. I worked at Wheeler Army Airfield, outside the hangar where I worked there was an asphalt patch that was rumored to be covering the crater from a bomb that did not explode but was later removed. I never checked out the story but it was intriguing.
I was there in 2015, Swamp Ghost was still in crates in the parking lot!
What's wild is when they went to remove the Swamp Ghost, they found the pilot's thermos with coffee still in it!
It was that way in 2013 when I was there.
By the way, the SBD that looked like it was being restored, was actually hanging from the ceiling above.
Thanks a ton. Dad was a pilot in ww2 and after the war we were stationed in Honolulu. As a boy of 7 in 1957, I can still remember the burnt smell of aviation fuel, oil, and wreckage when the wind would shift just so....Dad took us over to Hickam and Pearl and it was still pretty raw.......I caught Dad just standing and staring off at the bay and saw tears as he wept for his fallen. Touching. Thanks again.
A lot of people don't know that it was Elvis Presley who donated the bulk of the money to build the Pearl Harbor memorial, it was very important to him.
Very interesting, I didn't know that
Thanks Elvis
Seeing this is really cool. I hope to go and see Pearl Harbor one day, there’s a lot of history there. Thanks for the video Chris, keep up the great work!
At 1:11 on the left, is the F-105 Thunderchief "Thud". Some of the bravest men to ever live flew that jet over the skys of Vietnam. They flew into some of the heaviest Air defenses in history. The 105 pilots were required to fly 100 missions before returning home, which was 50 more than pilots in WW2. It was the only American aircraft to have been removed from combat due to high loss rates. God bless all our veterans and their families and thank you for your service and sacrifice.
That loss rate was over a period of 10 years. Also, the Pentagon restricted what approach vectors pilots could use
There's a book called "Thud Ridge" about this.
Oil still bubbles up from the ship remains. It is said" Arizona cries for her dead." It's awesome to see
My father was a crew manager for an oil search company in new Guinea in the early 70s. He and his crew found a long-lost twin-engined American warbird in the jungle. They cleared the site and transported one of the propellors to the nearest village to put in the schoolyard.
They all got out and escaped the Japanese apparently unhurt,good flying putting that ship down that place!
Once again you've given us a memorable history lesson and tour with great video and narration. Thanks Again!
Thank you Chris I am ex-Navy that hangers been on my bucket list forever but with my failing health I’ll probably never get there so thank you for showing
Sir, you are true hero. Thank you for your service. I pray you can get there some day.
@@jimhoffmann thank you God bless you
Thank you so much for your service. I’m praying for you.
Great video! So much history. Seeing the bullet holes gave me the chills. When my father was a Marine in the 1950’s he stood guard at the USS Arizona.
I lived on Pearl Habour Air Force base, when i was there in 2017-2018. I was an exchange student from Denmark, and I remember seeing a Lot of bullet holes, and even Small bomb craters around ford island.
Love this! I've been to Oahu many times and Pearl Harbor but have not visited the museum yet. I like how old and abandoned it all looks. What a great feel of history!
Thank you for making this particular episode sir. Just wanted to give you a shout-out from Chicago ❤️
Fascinating, Chris, thank you! I'm glad you are enjoying your Hawaii travels - thank you for sharing them with us! Happy Holidays!
When I was stationed at Hickam AFB I was in a barracks that had machine gun bullet holes in the outer walls from the attack. I asked about them and was told the buildings and the damage were protected by a law so they cannot be fixed to show some of the damage inflicted. I was on the flightline and there were bomb craters filled with concrete all over the flightline. It was a sobering vison of guys just like me working on the flightline and being attacked.
You can feel the history just watching I couldn't imagine being there . Great job brother, Thanks . God Bless
Was stationed there from 06-08'. Wow, this video brings back a lot of memories!
Loved it! Visited that museum back in late Feb 2018 and enjoyed everything about it. Thankfully I got a room reservation at the TLF there on Ford Island so I had plenty of time to see everything there. Definitely one of my favorite destinations!
We just went on the 7th for the 80th anniversary and saw those too… amazing. Glad they preserved it. Great shot of the Swamp Ghost
I long to visit Pear Harbour. I never even thought of visiting Ford Island and seeing the museum there. Thank you for sharing the video of your visit.
Like a portal in time. Great video. thanks for sharing. Amazing to see how the battle scars are still there after all these decades.
Absolutely amazing video! Definitely one of my favorites that you've done. I would really like to visit there myself someday.
Super cool video thanks for sharing it. I look back at the history of pearl harbor and I can't help but think what an awesome country this used to be.
Very cool thanks for posting. Will add this facility to my next visit.
Nice. I’ll have to put that place on my bucket list. Thank you.
I was Stationed at Pearl and years later lived on the Waikiki side of Diamond Head for 7 years. Loved every minute of it! Miss it so much.
Cool field trip nice share - thank you.
Thanx so much Chris. I love the history also and through your travels, you show me places that I could never go. Thanx so much and Happy New Year!
In the mid 70s my Dad was dating a woman who’s father was stationed at Scofield Barracks. She (7 years old) and her family were living in base housing during the attack. Their house was strafed by the Japanese planes. The bullets went across the bathroom floor in front of her brother (11 years old) who was sitting on the toilet at the time.
Also, on the other side of Ford Island from the USS Arizona, is the remains of the USS Utah.
It’s not easy to find if you don’t know where it is , but there is a plaque.
Very interesting, thanks for showing us around.
Nice tour. I wish I could go and experience the same feelings you did.
Dude this is the second video I've watched from your channel and I gotta say, you do it right man. Loved that jaws video you shot in new Jersey
I have all my fathers’ medals from WWII and I remember as a little boy going to anything that had to do with airplanes from the war as my dad served in what was the Army Air Force, The predecessor to the Air Force and the stories he would tell me, he lost many friends during the war but was able to come back in 1 piece and marry my mom, his cousin and mine as well was killed in the South Pacific, May he Rest In Peace, keep up the great work, I love seeing and learning as much as possible when able especially since I have a very difficult time walking nowadays !
To all who where in the service and are in I want to say “Thank you” !!
Pre- Air Force they were called the Army Air Corps, not force. Just an FYI.
Actually the Army Air Corps changed to the Army Air Forces in 1941 then to Air Force in 1947. (My dad was in the Army Air Force, flew missions in B-24s in Italy with 98thBG, 15th Air Force).
@@johnmorton3584
The 15th Air Force of the Army Air Corps.....
Always great to see such history! We can never forget what these brave men and women went through that horrific day and all of world war 2. We all owe them a huge debt of gratitude!🇺🇸😎
Agreed!
God Bless America!! Love Much respect from Edmonton, Alberta.👍🏼🇨🇦🇺🇸
@@dannymcnamara2554 always lovin our friends up north!😎🇺🇸🇨🇦
Wow! Great video! Fascinating stuff! 👌😎👍definitely in the bucket list!
Thank
You for sharing this video with us all
I am from Honolulu, and we went to the memorial every year in grade school and I've never seen all dat'. Thank you, that fills in so much more of what I know of our/my history. Thanks again
thank you for recording this footage. everyone has footage of the boats. but none have footage of this stuff! pretty damn cool!
I’m fortunate enough to have logged 30-40 hours in a T-6 Texan like the one in your video. I grew up hanging around a CAF Squadron when I was a kid. This is a fantastic presentation! Thanks for sharing this.
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for awesome history. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you for making this brilliant video!
Chris, this amazing! Ty for sharing with us.
Thank you for sharing absolutely amazing to see the history of that horrible day R.I.P to all those who die that day
verry cool thank you for sharing this history can not be lost.. so amazing
My next trip to Maui, I will now take a day trip to Oahu and visit Ford Island...."What amazing history" You say....I can't wait til April to do this....Side not I can't get enough of Pearl, my Grandpa was on the USS Arizona B 39 for 3 years, leaving 6 weeks before the sneak attack. The times I would go to the memorial with him and the names he knew on the wall, were some of the most heat wrenching moments in my life.....Thanks for you history lessons you provide!....Merry Christmas from Glendale, AZ.
Such incredible history, thank you for the tour
Awesome tour, thank you.
I always loved historic videos like this.
That was really interesting to see! My older son would be so interested in seeing Pearl Harbor one day!
Very nicely done - Thanks!
Thankyou for sharing the history!
My great Uncle was on the USS Phoenix December 7 1941. The Phoenix was 1 of 2 ships to escape The Harbor that day. I am honored to have the dog tags he was wearing that day.and I have a hand made Backgamon board game which the USS Phoenix stencil on the tube that housed the game and the cloth game board. What I have is a museum piece of history.
Definitely a bucket list item for me. Go Cubs! Thanks for the video.
Watching this video suddenly gave me the goosebumps. Especially the where you showed the airstrip that was completely destroyed. As well as the hangar that has bullet holes in the glass windows. But seeing the F-14 tomcat inside the hangar suddenly makes think about the movie The Final Countdown. As well as what the tomcat wasn't decommissioned from service. The P-40 warhawk was definitely an awesome plane. It is the hero of Pearl Harbor since a pair of it took down six A6M zeros after the attacked. Overall I hope that I can get to visit Pearl Harbor someday.
Thank you for this video. Yes all they mostly show are the battleships
Ironic that one admiral of the Pacific Fleet was removed for saying Pearl Harbor was too vulnerable, the next was removed for failing to protect the fleet when it was attacked.
James Otto Richardson (18 September 1878 - 2 May 1974) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served from 1902 to 1947. As Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (CinCUS), he protested the redeployment of the Pacific portion of the fleet forward to Pearl Harbor since he believed that a forward defense was neither practical nor useful and that the Pacific Fleet would be the logical first target in the event of war with Japan since it was vulnerable to air and torpedo attacks. He was relieved of command in February 1941. His concerns proved justified during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor only ten months later
Government incompetence is not new.
@@senoJSR I can't find anything about it now, but I remember reading part of the strategic plan was thinking Japan would attack Philippines. That there was a plan to fight a holding action up to and including holding out on Corigador. That the Pacific Fleet would respond charging to the rescue.
Thank you, Chris, I absolutely loved this!
Very cool display thanks for sharing
Thank you for this posting.
I can't travel to pearl harbour so I'm very glad you posted this video, thumbs up, great channel.
Thanks for the tour. Exciting to see, yet Sad for what happened there in 1941. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Looks like an old Aussie F111 at the end, looking at the paint job. Thanks for sharing that .
Hi from uk all i can say is this gives me 'goosebums'
this video was fascinating, thx for sharing. I wish I had a museum like that here!😂
I was there a few years ago and it's truly an amazing experience.
Great video Chris!!!
Very cool, I always enjoy seeing anything related to WW2. Thank-you for showing this.
Great video, Thank You !
I was stationed in Hawaii in the 90's at MCB Hawaii over in Kanehoe, another place the Japanese attacked.... Late in my enlistment, when i had about 6-8 months left they made me a Navy Brig escort, where i had to take guys to the brig on Ford Island after any type of court marshal, they were usually just 30 day sentences for guys doing dumb shit, anyway, whenever i dropped them off i could park the vehicle and walk along Battleship row and some of the hangers, this was before civilians were allowed on Ford Island, and before any of the museums were there, in the evenings to walk around there all by yourself and think about what happened there was and is something ill never forget, so quiet, peaceful......eerie almost......
A great video ty for doing this one.
God bless you and stay safe.
Nice video and great exposure for a great museum that doesn’t get the visitors it deserves because it is a little off the beaten path. Lived in Hawaii for nine years and many of my friends and coworkers did volunteer work there. Many bullet holes from the attack remain in the PACAF HQ building on Hickam AFB too…I worked in that building for 3 years. They have to find a way to keep the birds out of the hangars where those restored aircraft are.
I was stationed at Wheeler army airfield and our hangers had bullet holes from WW2 and some crater marks on airfield. I love ford island. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing this video. I enjoyed it.
Good video. Pearl Harbor is one of places I've been in my life whether I was deployed, or visiting and exploring on my own where you definitely get a sense that something big has happened there.
It's worth the trip to visit, pay respects, and learn exactly what happened December 7, 1941 .
Our young men and women in uniform, and civilians that saved the U. S. of America over 8 decades ago need to never be forgotten . December of 1941 to August of 1945 was a very scary time for freedom and democracy, and should never be taken for granted.
Best to all.
Semper Paratus
Standing among historic places where big events took place, my gosh, would give me chills! ❤️❤️WW2 History, including their weapons. ( did you hear the birds inside the hanger? ) 👍👍👏👏 Good job!
Awesome photos of some historic planes🌟
Very enjoyable. Superb picture quality and sound. 👍
Thank you for uploading this it was very interesting to watch. I a a huge aircraft lover as well and the P-51 is my favorite WW2 fighter with the P-40 coming in as a close second. I didn't realize there would still be bullet holes in the hanger window's as well. I would love to visit that whole area in person but I will have to stick to seeing it via other people.
It was a nice video and nice of you to not point out the P40 stand in for the P51 :-). I've been to the AZ musem but not Ford Island.