My father was listening to a football game on the radio with his dad when this announcement was made. 3 years later, he was on his way to the Pacific as a paratrooper, and served in the Philippines, Guam, and Okinawa. He was supposed to take part in the invasion of Japan, and was on Guam when the Japanese accepted the terms of surrender. He then spent the next year in Japan as part of the occupation forces. At 96, he is still alive and kicking.
Glad to hear! There are so few WWII veterans left. Lost my great-grandfather in 2020, aged 96. Cherish the time you have with him, and make sure to record his memories.
@@danielgiusti6649 Wow, my father was in the occupation force as well! He fought as a U.S. Marine in General MacArthur's Island-Hopping Campaign, and to his dying day he hated the "Japs", as he called them.
@@MrMenefrego1 very cool! And we even have similar last names wow! Yup, Grandpop Giusti refused to own or buy anything Japanese made. Wish I had more time to ask all the questions and hear the stories
You’re full of sh*t you do know the Philippines campaign in world war 2 was during 1941-42 right? If your “grandpa” is 96 right now he would’ve been 15-16 years old when that was going. Too young to be drafted or enlist in the army/marines unless he lied about his age which many did at the time because the record keeping isn’t as sophisticated like it is now. I can believe Okinawa cause he would’ve been 17 at the time that campaign started. Unless he was stationed at the Philippines afterwards? I’m not buying this one. Too many people on the internet claiming crap that isn’t true. The timelines just seem off to me according to his age and his service location in the pacific theater
Many years after Pearl Harbor, I studied with a wonderful political science teacher who was a young naval officer at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 - he was a young ensign on the USS California. His ship was badly damaged during the attack. Many of us only learned of his naval service and what happened to him that day after his retirement when former students asked him about a document - the California’s orders for the morning of December 7, 1941. We learned he’d been a junior officer and had been there on that day. Thankfully, he survived, though so many others did not. His feet were badly burned on the ship’s deck, but he managed to swim ashore. He was in command of many gunners in the A-A batteries. He and his men stuck to their guns until the heat from the fires became too intense and drove them away. Listening to this and remembering their service and their sacrifice.
My parents graduated from high school in May of 1942. Both immediately joined the US Navy. Dad ultimately served in an LST in the South Pacific. Mom was a "WAVE" and assigned to clerical work for Admiral Nimitz's staff in a building then under construction in Washington DC. It is now called the Pentagon. Both lived into their 90s and at their request, are now resting at the Georgia Military Cemetery in Woodstock, Georgia. Sadly, the place is filling fast as the Greatest Generation is quickly passing.
As a female vet myself, kudos to your mother. It was no picnic for us back in the 1970s, but was infinitely more challenging for military women in the 1940s.
God bless them ! it’s because of people like them we live in freedom today, from all the dictators and authoritarians we face. The names change but their aim is the same…we must defend freedom to keep it, they knew this then, and I hope enough of us know it now.
I live in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. I’m at Pearl Harbor all the time for work. Every time I go to Ford Island, I imagine what it must’ve been like to be there during the attack in 1941. It always gives me goosebumps when I’m there. It’s also a good reminder of the sacrifice our troops have to pay to preserve, protect, and defend our freedoms against all enemies. My great-grandparents were teenagers when the attack took place and witnessed everything.
I would guess 95% of your generation on the main land have no clue what Pearl Harbor is. Where it is, what happened and the historical significance. So I am glad you do.
@@user-sh2mk8ew4c From what I understand, it’s not taught as much on the mainland than it is here in the islands. It’s really sad, considering it was what led the U.S. into WWII.
One of my uncles was stationed on Oahu at age 19yo and he was asleep when the attack occurred with a huge hangover. We always were proud of him even though he didn't actually do anything except try to organize clean ups. He always said it was a tactical mess and took a good week to get things organized after the attack. The bay was blocked off and he could hear trapped sailors tapping Morse code on the sunked ship hulls but they couldn't save them. Some just gave their names in Morse code.
"It’s also a good reminder of the sacrifice our troops have to pay to preserve, protect, and defend our freedoms against all enemies." Then what happened to our freedoms? I find that people who repeat those lines,---have no idea how to properly define human freedom. If we were fighting for it, what happened to it?
My mother was just a little girl on that day. She had gone to the movies to see Gary Cooper in Sergeant York. When she got home, she found her family gathered around the radio listening to a broadcast like this.
Imagine you're in 12th grade getting ready for Christmas break then you learn you're going to the pacific to fight in one of the most brutal wars ever fought.
My dad at age 18 joined the USMC on December 8th, 1941. He fought in the worst battles the Corps had. He was awarded, 3 Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, Silver Star for actions in combat. Leaving the Corps in 1946 as a Gunny Sargent.
My dad and his Army buddies were chilling in their barracks in KS when they heard this broadcast. His reaction was "where the hell is Pearl Harbor?". I said much the same thing about Saigon some 20 years later.
“December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy, when the United States was suddenly and deliberately atttack by the empire of Japan” That quote is instilled in me
Incredible live Recording... we are lucky that radio transmission from far away place and electric transcriptions had already reached such a state of precision that we can now listen to these recordings insuch incredible sound.
The broadcast from London is definitely shortwave simulcast on AM. The "drifting" of the signal is telltale and is typical of 1930s and early 1940s correspondence. Amazing that CBS (Columbia then) got this on transcription!
We can be grateful to KIRO, Seattle for this particular recording. It’s the network feed for West Coast affiliates, and likely came through the Los Angeles network owned station from its direct line to the network’s New York headquarters. That’s how I understand it based on available information.
My Father fought in World War 2 I'm named after one of my uncles that was killed at his Double Duce .50 Caliber on the USS California My dad was getting ready for work when he heard the news. My dad served from 1941 to 1949. He served his country with pride. He was a Marine Sniper He joined millions of others to stop the Japanese war machine. He went on his final patrol 2nd November 1994. Rest In Peace Dad
My bedroom looks like one from the 1940s, and I recently found a vintage radio. I put it in my room on my nightstand. Then, I placed my phone behind it and played this broadcast, as well as some 1940s music. As I sat there, listening, dressed in authentic 1940s clothes, let me tell you, it was surreal. I felt like it was all real. I understood their situation more than you can by reading a textbook.
That is actually a great way to induce time travel. Sounds like you were on the edge of shifting time lines. Research the subject. Regards, and Good Luck.
@@davidmoser3535 Hahaha I'm not serious about thinking that induces time travel. As for Peter, I'm not sure. But enjoying these antique/vintage things sure is fun :).
I love to hear the radio broadcasts throughout WW II. My dad grew up in rural Kentucky. He registered in 1944 when he turned 18. His dad was 47, had fought in WW I, and he had to register in 1942. His two older brothers were gone already. They had no radio, no phone. I can’t imagine my grandmother’s heart, fearful, but she just had too much to do with 3 more younger ones. My granddad didn’t have to go. My dad was in the Pacific Northwest, preparing to be sent to Japan. Thankfully, President Truman took care of that. So he was part of the occupation in Germany. Until families got letters they didn’t know anything of their boys. Sometimes even then they didn’t know. Maybe 24 hour news isn’t such a great thing after all.
The hearts of all the grandmothers, mothers, aunts, who had their fears, children and nephews, in the battle fronts. Her hearts were always on a thread. And the most terrible thing, when the telegrams arrived, giving the news that some of them had died in combat. They just fell apart ...
At several points in this broadcast, reporters mentioned the Japanese Navy would soon face counterattack from the newest British battleship, _Prince of Wales._ Three days later, that ship, which previously fought the _Bismarck,_ lay on the bottom of the South China Sea, sunk by Japanese bombers. As the wreckage of Pearl Harbor became apparent in the days following, in addition to the surrender of Wake Island and the invasion of the Philippines, December 1941 must have been one of the darkest months in US history.
My mother, married six months, was preparing dinner, and dropped a butter dish when she heard. My father had just turned 27. He was blind in one eye, but was a terrific pistol shot. They made him an MP. I'm here.
Same with my Parents and Grandparents. My mother was 13 and my father was 14. My mother told me when she heard the news with her aunt and uncles. Both her Aunt and Uncles were stunned and believe that the attack was more proof that the biblical end times were upon them.
@@coleparker That's interesting. My mother and aunt believe that biblical end times are upon us now based on all the wacky stuff that's in the news. I guess that just goes to show that biblical times are always upon us.
Two excellent reads to check out: "Brothers Down", the story of brothers serving aboard U.S.S Arizona, and "Second to Last to Leave the Arizona", the story of a U.S.S Arizona survivor.
Can you imagine if you were a Sailor on HMS Prince of Wales hearing this? "Oh shit why don't they just tell the Japanese where we are ...oh wait, they just did"
Thank you to the person who uploaded this. Let me know if you are okay. 1941 was a long time ago. And this video was uploaded 10 years ago. I hope you're still alive.
I took care of a man Steven Sealy that was in Pearl Harbor when he was just eighteen and he was a survivor he had survivor's remorse. I also had a chance to see Pearl Harbor on a boat and you could see the oil coming up. Sad
My father was a young adult in New York City on December 7, 1941. World War 2 was already on in Europe and Asia. His reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor was similar to most U.S. citizens. "The War is on for us and it's about time! And no doubt we will win!" He served in the Pacific and was in the occupation of Japan.
I also listen to Unshackled by Pacific Garden mission to. The reason why I'm listening to this is because I want to hear what was on the news when my mother was 10 years old. Silly me. She's 90 now can I think something in her childhood scared her. I'm beginning to see what she lived through. I like to step in other people's shoes sometimes it really helps me to know them and love them much
It's amazing to me how quickly this first report had the information that the Japanese diplomats had been caught lying due to the mistiming of their meetings.
Before all they had was the radio, now we have the internet so we can learn how people wanted to know what was happening in the world or for those old people to remember the fear they had upon hearing this horrific broadcast.
I think that they were more stunned than anything else. The attack was an absolute surprise (though military tacticians had long predicted that any Japanese attack would be concentrated wherever the fleet was concentrated--e.g. Pearl Harbor).
My grandparents were at one of the family farms. My mom was a newborn. My grandparents told me that they were not suprised. Farmers. They had radios in the barn and house. They listened intently. Lol, my grandmother told me they were already making bkackout curtains by the end of the day. Sizing up security and supplies. They were still in the depression. There were a lot of Nazi sympathy in the German population. They were more worried in the short term of the Nazi threat. However, they were well educated and understood what was happening.
Here is the whole radio afternoon and evening on December 7, 1941: homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/articles/level1/pear_harbor_war_warning_november.htm
CBS recorded their full broadcast days, they could then let small local stations broadcast it. Normally these recordings would be destroyed regularly but CBS seen the historical importance of these broadcasts and preserved them. D-day as well and jfk assassination day.
My Mother told me that after that she heard of the attack, she wanted to go join the fight. But, a doctor (if I'm not mistaken) told her that they needed her there at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati where that she was training / working as a nurse.
It was my grandpa’s birthday. They were together in Brooklyn ny that Sunday when they gathered around in the living room. I was 2 years old so of course don’t remember this. But little snippets of memories from the nest four years are there for me…my mother was an air raid warden and I do remember sirens and being alone with my sister while Mom went out. To check the block for any light showing from windows…
Some ppl forget 2001, but I will never forgot Dec,7,1941, that famous Roosevelt speech he did the day after to the media, is probably one if not the most badass speeches ever, and we were set out and did so make Japan pay in full
President Roosevelt’s speech was not the media; he was addressing Congress. It was an address to a Joint Session of Congress. It carried by the major radio networks as well as recorded by camera. Congress passed a declaration of war following the speech.
RKO was a commercial radio network and movie maker....not aware of them being involved in code breaking. www.britannica.com/topic/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Inc
@@sparkyranger4737 It depends on how you define "network." If, by "network," you mean something along the lines of NBC or CBS, no, RKO wasn't that. RKO was a "group owner" along the lines of what came to be known as "Group W." There's a difference between a company that owns a chain of radio stations and a "network."
My mother was 10 years old on that day. She’ says she remembers neighbors out in the street talking about the attack and what was going to happen next.
No Charles, that was the greatest generation! It was a time when men were real men and not the coward effeminate little boys who are too fearful to defend their country and their family today.
These broadcasts weren't continuous. No radio network "blew-out" regular programming for hour-after-hour of "wall-to-wall" coverage. But by the time of D-Day two-and-a-half-years later, the networks were able to mount nonstop coverage during the first 24 hours of the invasion.
My Daddy was so excited to help America he joined the Navy at 17! "OVER THERE!" he went. Sadly, someone on his ship called him the "n" word and caused problems. But he fought the REAL enemy and we WON! GLORY!
My grandmother told me that she was having lunch at home while grandpa was teaching a class when she heard the news on the radio. She also told me that when Grandpa came home, he told her that he was going to enlist the next day. three months later he was stationed in Saipan
Standing over the Arizona and seeing bullet holes in the tarmac and hangars is pretty indescribable. Many of the windows and buildings were left as they were after the attack. Even so, the overall damage that occurred there is hard to imagine given the scope of destruction and loss of life.
My Grandparents told me. They listened to this very broadcast as did my other set of Grandparents. I think it was in the afternoon. The ext day at lunchtime FDR and Congress declared war.
My Dad was in the Army merchant fleet in WW2. He insisted being buried in the military cemetery in CT. I used to wonder why the Dads were quiet guys. My mom says they returned from war and had to live with it.
I remain amazed that both the USA and UK had made no preparations for the Japanese attacks despite a wealth of intelligence suggesting an attack and the long running political situation. The moving of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse to Singapore was the only British response and one that ended in both being lost, they seemed to believe that a couple of capital ships would deter them, how wrong they were.
Earl Hancock "Pete" Ellis, a Marine lieutenant colonel intelligence officer, predicted that the Japanese would attack wherever the US fleet was concentrated in 1923. He is the author of Operations Plan 712: Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia, which became the basis for the American campaign of amphibious assault that defeated the Japanese in World War II (Wikipedia).
Read the book "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinnett or watch the BBC documentary "Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor" and you will you get the answers to your post.
@@samson9535 One of the most interesting books on Pearl Harbor I ever read. Very revealing and full of a lot of evidence culled from Freedom of information act documents. Be prepared for the political fallout in conversations with Roosevelt fans though!
I read a book titled Panic in the Pacific. The author found statements by politicians and military leaders where they said Japan couldn't attack the US because they couldn't see well enough to fly. At the same time, Japan was attacking China with air and ground forces.
FDR purposely left the bulk of the fleet at Pearl while the oil embargo against Japan continued. The citenzenry of the US wanted nothing to do with another world War, he had to provoke Japan to attack to get us into it,and, haber the support of the people. It would take months to get congress to declare war unless we were attacked. He knew Germany would declare war against us as power their pact with Japan. When that happened, we were good to go. The US and British had intel that Japan would do exactly what they did.
A friend and I was sitting In is apartment, sitting in vintage chairs. We were wearing suits and ties, smoking our tobacco pipes, and he played this. Is was a half hour of Time travel.
I'm sure they were stuck to the radio with some feeling intense fear while others were feeling righteous anger which led to unstoppable resolve to finish what Japan had started.
My dad was 20 years old in 1941. He was listening to a football game on the radio when the news was announced that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. I never did ask him if the broadcast of the game continued after the initial announcement of the attack. Anyway, my dad was training to be a civilian air traffic controller. He was never drafted since he was needed in the US to help manage the transport of military planes across the US to overseas deployment, as well as manage civilian and commercial air traffic. I might not be here if he had been drafted.
Interesting to hear the speculations about how the attack will be handled. Only 29 Japanese aircraft were shot down. The b-17s mentioned were all damaged or destroyed.
Absolutely true. When I called my dad on 9/11 (he didn't tend to turn on the TV or even the radio during the day so I wanted to tell him to turn the TV on), he said, "This is YOUR Pearl Harbor." My parents were out raking leaves on December 7, 1941, and didn't find out about the attack until they came back into the house and turned the radio on.
We may perceive that it was true back then, but I don't think that is very true. The TV served as a great collectivist propaganda machine since it's propagation. Little left steps at the beginning, big left steps now.
Shame you feel we lost. I feel we won. Japan had every opportunity to surrender before Hiroshima, then the before Nagasaki, yet they chose to let those cities burn.
It was a very tragic day and my friend Ed Gruber a Navy Correspondent in Korea had the privilege of escorting VIPs like the Andrews Sisters and actor John Wayne to what's left of the USS Arizona which was America's first war grave.
Wrong The West invaded the East Russia wars with Japan USA in Phillipinrs Dutch in Indonesia French in Indochina(Vietnam) The British, everywhere Missionaries , everywhere
@@stevenmoreno2888 U.S. in Philippines- Spanish American war. Nothing to do with Japan. What other countries did to other countries that the U.S. was not in has NOTHING to do with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and pissing off the U.S. that didn't want to get involved in a war. Pay attention!
Japan needed oil. US controlled the oil and embargoed Japan. Japan wanted to strike the pacific fleet and set up defensive positions and hope to negotiate to keep seized territory .
imagine you told someone back then that in the future there was gonna be this thing called the internet where everyone was gonna gather around and listen to this broadcast all over again and have a discussion about it .. they would've said you're full of shit lol
Strange to think, but war then seems simple compared to the prospect of world war now. I feel like world war now would see a larger civilian casualty than military. Sodiers are good at not getting killed. Civilians are much worse at feeding themselves. With that in mind, somehow civilians are less concerned about war now than they were then even though we have much more to lose now than we did then.
I'm no military strategy expert, but I suspect that if we ever do get into a war with China, it'll start in the waters that China claims as its own and the US (among other countries) claims are international waters.
If there is war between China-USA it won’t be conventional. It will be nuclear. No winners. Let’s pray the nuclear candle is never lit. Give peace a chance.
They were repeating the only information they had at the time, for the benefit of all the listeners who were told by a neighbor or friend, "The Japanese attacked us! Go turn on your radio!" I took a minute or two for that tube radio to "warm up," so people were joining the broadcast at different times. That let them hear the whole thing.
You know pres roosevelt was probably the only pres to go through the great depression and ww2 and served as president more then any other and had polio what a brave and tough man
My father was listening to a football game on the radio with his dad when this announcement was made. 3 years later, he was on his way to the Pacific as a paratrooper, and served in the Philippines, Guam, and Okinawa. He was supposed to take part in the invasion of Japan, and was on Guam when the Japanese accepted the terms of surrender. He then spent the next year in Japan as part of the occupation forces. At 96, he is still alive and kicking.
Glad to hear! There are so few WWII veterans left. Lost my great-grandfather in 2020, aged 96. Cherish the time you have with him, and make sure to record his memories.
Amazing! My Gpop flight with the 1st Marines in Peliliu and Okinawa as well as the occupation force in Japan. God Bless the Greatest Generation
@@danielgiusti6649 Wow, my father was in the occupation force as well! He fought as a U.S. Marine in General MacArthur's Island-Hopping Campaign, and to his dying day he hated the "Japs", as he called them.
@@MrMenefrego1 very cool! And we even have similar last names wow! Yup, Grandpop Giusti refused to own or buy anything Japanese made. Wish I had more time to ask all the questions and hear the stories
You’re full of sh*t you do know the Philippines campaign in world war 2 was during 1941-42 right? If your “grandpa” is 96 right now he would’ve been 15-16 years old when that was going. Too young to be drafted or enlist in the army/marines unless he lied about his age which many did at the time because the record keeping isn’t as sophisticated like it is now. I can believe Okinawa cause he would’ve been 17 at the time that campaign started. Unless he was stationed at the Philippines afterwards? I’m not buying this one. Too many people on the internet claiming crap that isn’t true. The timelines just seem off to me according to his age and his service location in the pacific theater
Many years after Pearl Harbor, I studied with a wonderful
political science teacher who was a young naval officer at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 - he was a young ensign on the USS California. His ship was badly damaged during the attack.
Many of us only learned of his naval service and what happened to him that day after his retirement when former students asked him about a document - the California’s orders for the morning of December 7, 1941. We learned he’d been a junior officer and had been there on that day. Thankfully, he survived, though so many others did not. His feet were badly burned on the ship’s deck, but he managed to swim ashore.
He was in command of many gunners in the A-A batteries. He and his men stuck to their guns until the heat from the fires became too intense and drove them away.
Listening to this and remembering their service and their sacrifice.
God bless the men and women that sacrificed so much
My parents graduated from high school in May of 1942. Both immediately joined the US Navy. Dad ultimately served in an LST in the South Pacific. Mom was a "WAVE" and assigned to clerical work for Admiral Nimitz's staff in a building then under construction in Washington DC. It is now called the Pentagon. Both lived into their 90s and at their request, are now resting at the Georgia Military Cemetery in Woodstock, Georgia. Sadly, the place is filling fast as the Greatest Generation is quickly passing.
As a female vet myself, kudos to your mother. It was no picnic for us back in the 1970s, but was infinitely more challenging for military women in the 1940s.
Amazing family history. Te greatest generation. ❤
God bless them ! it’s because of people like them we live in freedom today, from all the dictators and authoritarians we face. The names change but their aim is the same…we must defend freedom to keep it, they knew this then, and I hope enough of us know it now.
I live in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. I’m at Pearl Harbor all the time for work. Every time I go to Ford Island, I imagine what it must’ve been like to be there during the attack in 1941. It always gives me goosebumps when I’m there. It’s also a good reminder of the sacrifice our troops have to pay to preserve, protect, and defend our freedoms against all enemies.
My great-grandparents were teenagers when the attack took place and witnessed everything.
I would guess 95% of your generation on the main land have no clue what Pearl Harbor is.
Where it is, what happened and the historical significance.
So I am glad you do.
@@user-sh2mk8ew4c From what I understand, it’s not taught as much on the mainland than it is here in the islands. It’s really sad, considering it was what led the U.S. into WWII.
One of my uncles was stationed on Oahu at age 19yo and he was asleep when the attack occurred with a huge hangover. We always were proud of him even though he didn't actually do anything except try to organize clean ups. He always said it was a tactical mess and took a good week to get things organized after the attack. The bay was blocked off and he could hear trapped sailors tapping Morse code on the sunked ship hulls but they couldn't save them. Some just gave their names in Morse code.
"It’s also a good reminder of the sacrifice our troops have to pay to preserve, protect, and defend our freedoms against all enemies."
Then what happened to our freedoms? I find that people who repeat those lines,---have no idea how to properly define human freedom. If we were fighting for it, what happened to it?
My father was on Ford island,had shrap metal in his arms all my life. Took cover under big truck was raining metal.
My mother was just a little girl on that day. She had gone to the movies to see Gary Cooper in Sergeant York. When she got home, she found her family gathered around the radio listening to a broadcast like this.
It may have been this very broadcast.
I'm listen to this December 7,2021.
Imagine you're in 12th grade getting ready for Christmas break then you learn you're going to the pacific to fight in one of the most brutal wars ever fought.
My dad at age 18 joined the USMC on December 8th, 1941.
He fought in the worst battles the Corps had. He was awarded,
3 Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, Silver Star for actions in combat.
Leaving the Corps in 1946 as a Gunny Sargent.
@@richardc7721 We are truly indebted to his generation and the sacrifices they made
One of my nitemares but its Korea
They were ALL TUFF YOUNG MEN RIP
i cant say for certain, but i think most soldiers in 1941-mid 1942 were almost never drafted and most signed up because they were excited
My dad and his Army buddies were chilling in their barracks in KS when they heard this broadcast. His reaction was "where the hell is Pearl Harbor?". I said much the same thing about Saigon some 20 years later.
People from my generation said that about places like Fallujah and Afghanistan. Did you serve in Vietnam? I've never served.
Rip all who died on pearl harbor
“December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy, when the United States was suddenly and deliberately atttack by the empire of Japan”
That quote is instilled in me
Incredible live Recording... we are lucky that radio transmission from far away place and electric transcriptions had already reached such a state of precision that we can now listen to these recordings insuch incredible sound.
Its hard to believe that its been 81 years since that day...
Rest in peace to those who perished in the attack.
The broadcast from London is definitely shortwave simulcast on AM. The "drifting" of the signal is telltale and is typical of 1930s and early 1940s correspondence. Amazing that CBS (Columbia then) got this on transcription!
They called it CBS back then as well as "the Columbia Broadcasting System."
They transcribed everything they broadcasted.
@@ApartmentKing66, they still do.
We can be grateful to KIRO, Seattle for this particular recording. It’s the network feed for West Coast affiliates, and likely came through the Los Angeles network owned station from its direct line to the network’s New York headquarters. That’s how I understand it based on available information.
My Father fought in World War 2 I'm named after one of my uncles that was killed at his Double Duce .50 Caliber on the USS California My dad was getting ready for work when he heard the news. My dad served from 1941 to 1949. He served his country with pride. He was a Marine Sniper He joined millions of others to stop the Japanese war machine. He went on his final patrol 2nd November 1994. Rest In Peace Dad
My bedroom looks like one from the 1940s, and I recently found a vintage radio. I put it in my room on my nightstand. Then, I placed my phone behind it and played this broadcast, as well as some 1940s music. As I sat there, listening, dressed in authentic 1940s clothes, let me tell you, it was surreal. I felt like it was all real. I understood their situation more than you can by reading a textbook.
That is actually a great way to induce time travel. Sounds like you were on the edge of shifting time lines. Research the subject. Regards, and Good Luck.
@@peterturley1331 Awesome! I will continue my research. Currently wearing my great grandmother's clothes while playing her piano.
@@SarahM-lw2gd Ithink you are both nuts, but good luck
@@davidmoser3535 Hahaha I'm not serious about thinking that induces time travel. As for Peter, I'm not sure. But enjoying these antique/vintage things sure is fun :).
@@SarahM-lw2gd Add some drugs and it might just trick your mind into thinking you’ve traveled back to 1941 lmao.
I love to hear the radio broadcasts throughout WW II.
My dad grew up in rural Kentucky. He registered in 1944 when he turned 18.
His dad was 47, had fought in WW I, and he had to register in 1942. His two older brothers were gone already.
They had no radio, no phone. I can’t imagine my grandmother’s heart, fearful, but she just had too much to do with 3 more younger ones.
My granddad didn’t have to go.
My dad was in the Pacific Northwest, preparing to be sent to Japan. Thankfully, President Truman took care of that.
So he was part of the occupation in Germany.
Until families got letters they didn’t know anything of their boys. Sometimes even then they didn’t know.
Maybe 24 hour news isn’t such a great thing after all.
The hearts of all the grandmothers, mothers, aunts, who had their fears, children and nephews, in the battle fronts. Her hearts were always on a thread. And the most terrible thing, when the telegrams arrived, giving the news that some of them had died in combat. They just fell apart ...
Nearly 400 days of war, and nearly 400,000 dead, and many more wounded.
At several points in this broadcast, reporters mentioned the Japanese Navy would soon face counterattack from the newest British battleship, _Prince of Wales._ Three days later, that ship, which previously fought the _Bismarck,_ lay on the bottom of the South China Sea, sunk by Japanese bombers.
As the wreckage of Pearl Harbor became apparent in the days following, in addition to the surrender of Wake Island and the invasion of the Philippines, December 1941 must have been one of the darkest months in US history.
My parents and grandparents lived through all of this , I can image the horror and fear that they felt.
My mother, married six months, was preparing dinner, and dropped a butter dish when she heard. My father had just turned 27. He was blind in one eye, but was a terrific pistol shot. They made him an MP. I'm here.
Same with my Parents and Grandparents. My mother was 13 and my father was 14. My mother told me when she heard the news with her aunt and uncles. Both her Aunt and Uncles were stunned and believe that the attack was more proof that the biblical end times were upon them.
@@coleparker That's interesting. My mother and aunt believe that biblical end times are upon us now based on all the wacky stuff that's in the news. I guess that just goes to show that biblical times are always upon us.
@@sstills951 Yeah beliefs like that have been around since Biblical times :)!
Chilling. Thank you for all of your content. It's amazing how much you have, and it's good of you to share it with us.
Two excellent reads to check out: "Brothers Down", the story of brothers serving aboard U.S.S Arizona, and "Second to Last to Leave the Arizona", the story of a U.S.S Arizona survivor.
My Dad was listening to Wayne King when this message came on What a scary time for everybody Dad served overseas 1942 spring until Sept 1945
Can you imagine if you were a Sailor on HMS Prince of Wales hearing this? "Oh shit why don't they just tell the Japanese where we are ...oh wait, they just did"
It still gives me chills when I hear Roosevelt's speech.
Thank you to the person who uploaded this. Let me know if you are okay. 1941 was a long time ago. And this video was uploaded 10 years ago. I hope you're still alive.
Still kickin!
My paternal grandmother's birthday.....comes home from the movies to this news....imagine.
I took care of a man Steven Sealy that was in Pearl Harbor when he was just eighteen and he was a survivor he had survivor's remorse. I also had a chance to see Pearl Harbor on a boat and you could see the oil coming up. Sad
My father was a young adult in New York City on December 7, 1941. World War 2 was already on in Europe and Asia. His reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor was similar to most U.S. citizens. "The War is on for us and it's about time! And no doubt we will win!" He served in the Pacific and was in the occupation of Japan.
I also listen to Unshackled by Pacific Garden mission to. The reason why I'm listening to this is because I want to hear what was on the news when my mother was 10 years old. Silly me. She's 90 now can I think something in her childhood scared her. I'm beginning to see what she lived through. I like to step in other people's shoes sometimes it really helps me to know them and love them much
Thank you for posting this!
It's amazing to me how quickly this first report had the information that the Japanese diplomats had been caught lying due to the mistiming of their meetings.
Before all they had was the radio, now we have the internet so we can learn how people wanted to know what was happening in the world or for those old people to remember the fear they had upon hearing this horrific broadcast.
I think that they were more stunned than anything else. The attack was an absolute surprise (though military tacticians had long predicted that any Japanese attack would be concentrated wherever the fleet was concentrated--e.g. Pearl Harbor).
My grandparents were at one of the family farms. My mom was a newborn. My grandparents told me that they were not suprised. Farmers. They had radios in the barn and house. They listened intently. Lol, my grandmother told me they were already making bkackout curtains by the end of the day. Sizing up security and supplies. They were still in the depression. There were a lot of Nazi sympathy in the German population. They were more worried in the short term of the Nazi threat. However, they were well educated and understood what was happening.
This is awesome ...thanks for this post
I would love to see more WW2 radio
The SCR-300 was a radio used by American forces during WW2.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-300
Here is the whole radio afternoon and evening on December 7, 1941:
homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/articles/level1/pear_harbor_war_warning_november.htm
See more radio ? 😂😂😂
How do you get these old broadcasts this is so amazing
internet archive me lady
@@ikegee7420 lol
KarenKills c
Library of Congress...
CBS recorded their full broadcast days, they could then let small local stations broadcast it.
Normally these recordings would be destroyed regularly but CBS seen the historical importance of these broadcasts and preserved them. D-day as well and jfk assassination day.
Really enjoyed listening to this broadcast. It gives you detail.
John Charles Daly went on to later fame as the host of "What's my Line".
"THE WORLD TODAY" was heard at 2:30pm(et).
My Mother told me that after that she heard of the attack, she wanted to go join the fight. But, a doctor (if I'm not mistaken) told her that they needed her there at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati where that she was training / working as a nurse.
I held my first re-enlistment on USS Arizona Memorial in 1986. Very hallowed place.
It was my grandpa’s birthday. They were together in Brooklyn ny that Sunday when they gathered around in the living room. I was 2 years old so of course don’t remember this. But little snippets of memories from the nest four years are there for me…my mother was an air raid warden and I do remember sirens and being alone with my sister while Mom went out. To check the block for any light showing from windows…
I hope you are still around
My Dad turned 16 on pearl harbor day... 12-7-1925
Holy smokes. Very eerie. Similar to turning on the tv on the morning of 9/11
I’m convinced your a time traveller
There is nobility in time travel. Do it right and you'll never be found!
Some ppl forget 2001, but I will never forgot Dec,7,1941, that famous Roosevelt speech he did the day after to the media, is probably one if not the most badass speeches ever, and we were set out and did so make Japan pay in full
President Roosevelt’s speech was not the media; he was addressing Congress. It was an address to a Joint Session of Congress. It carried by the major radio networks as well as recorded by camera. Congress passed a declaration of war following the speech.
Except MacArthur allowed the criminals from Unit 731 to evade justice...
My step uncle was there, he worked in a decoding department I believe called rko? Is anyone familiar?
RKO was a commercial radio network and movie maker....not aware of them being involved in code breaking. www.britannica.com/topic/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Inc
私はただあなたの本当の気持ちが知りたいだけだよ。
What were they decoding? Who stole Betty Grable's panties.
@@siivagunnerwannabe1099 ?
@@sparkyranger4737 It depends on how you define "network." If, by "network," you mean something along the lines of NBC or CBS, no, RKO wasn't that. RKO was a "group owner" along the lines of what came to be known as "Group W." There's a difference between a company that owns a chain of radio stations and a "network."
This must have scared the shit out of the ENTIRE country...
My mother was 10 years old on that day. She’ says she remembers neighbors out in the street talking about the attack and what was going to happen next.
I'm sure it resulted in birthing two, main, responses: Fear and Resolve.
No! That was the greatest generation! It was the time when men were real men! And not coward effeminate men who hated their country.
No Charles, that was the greatest generation! It was a time when men were real men and not the coward effeminate little boys who are too fearful to defend their country and their family today.
Stunned would have been the first reaction. Many people asked, What is Pearl Harbor? Where is Pearl Harbor?
John Charles Daily, later of the very long running game show "What's My Line?".
The same.
Can’t even imagine the fog of war in these early reports shows how important it was to get it right back then.
It Was 80 Years Ago Today
This was 77 years ago today December 7th, 1941
Math wizard ! Wow how'd you accomplish this gargantuan task ? I flummoxed!
Don Love You’re a moron!
80 years ago as of this December if I'm not mistaken
These broadcasts weren't continuous.
No radio network "blew-out" regular programming for hour-after-hour of "wall-to-wall" coverage.
But by the time of D-Day two-and-a-half-years later, the networks were able to mount nonstop coverage during the first 24 hours of the invasion.
True
Excellent commentary altfactor...you are exactly right...radio was still fairly young in 1941 and far different what it became
My own father was born on Wednesday, October 1, 1941 . . . a little over two months before this broadcast.
How scary that fast life was changed
Enola Gay has entered the chat
What? 😎
@@donlove3741
That was the name of the B-29 that launched the Nuckear bomb attack on Hiroshima.
You get it now ??
@@diegotavel5872 No kidding ? Really? Say ain't so! Wow so many thanks for your brilliant comment. Too think I thought is was a Kardashian!
I was 2 years old on this day. Everyone came together. If this happened today, Sean Hannity would likely defend Japan.
Can you just imagine Hannity and his ilk having a tantrum over rationing?
My Daddy was so excited to help America he joined the Navy at 17! "OVER THERE!" he went. Sadly, someone on his ship called him the "n" word and caused problems. But he fought the REAL enemy and we WON! GLORY!
My grandmother told me that she was having lunch at home while grandpa was teaching a class when she heard the news on the radio. She also told me that when Grandpa came home, he told her that he was going to enlist the next day. three months later he was stationed in Saipan
My great uncle was in the Navy as a Commander in WWII. He was away from Pearl when Japanese attacked.
Standing over the Arizona and seeing bullet holes in the tarmac and hangars is pretty indescribable.
Many of the windows and buildings were left as they were after the attack. Even so, the overall damage that occurred there is hard to imagine given the scope of destruction and loss of life.
My Grandparents told me. They listened to this very broadcast as did my other set of Grandparents. I think it was in the afternoon. The ext day at lunchtime FDR and Congress declared war.
Thank you.
My Dad was in the Army merchant fleet in WW2. He insisted being buried in the military cemetery in CT. I used to wonder why the Dads were quiet guys. My mom says they returned from war and had to live with it.
December 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy Dec 7th 2022
I remain amazed that both the USA and UK had made no preparations for the Japanese attacks despite a wealth of intelligence suggesting an attack and the long running political situation. The moving of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse to Singapore was the only British response and one that ended in both being lost, they seemed to believe that a couple of capital ships would deter them, how wrong they were.
Earl Hancock "Pete" Ellis, a Marine lieutenant colonel intelligence officer, predicted that the Japanese would attack wherever the US fleet was concentrated in 1923. He is the author of Operations Plan 712: Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia, which became the basis for the American campaign of amphibious assault that defeated the Japanese in World War II (Wikipedia).
Read the book "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinnett or watch the BBC documentary "Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor" and you will you get the answers to your post.
@@samson9535 One of the most interesting books on Pearl Harbor I ever read. Very revealing and full of a lot of evidence culled from Freedom of information act documents. Be prepared for the political fallout in conversations with Roosevelt fans though!
I read a book titled Panic in the Pacific. The author found statements by politicians and military leaders where they said Japan couldn't attack the US because they couldn't see well enough to fly. At the same time, Japan was attacking China with air and ground forces.
FDR purposely left the bulk of the fleet at Pearl while the oil embargo against Japan continued. The citenzenry of the US wanted nothing to do with another world War, he had to provoke Japan to attack to get us into it,and, haber the support of the people. It would take months to get congress to declare war unless we were attacked. He knew Germany would declare war against us as power their pact with Japan. When that happened, we were good to go. The US and British had intel that Japan would do exactly what they did.
A friend and I was sitting In is apartment, sitting in vintage chairs. We were wearing suits and ties, smoking our tobacco pipes, and he played this. Is was a half hour of Time travel.
Imagining those who sat listening to this across the nation, in real time :-0
I'm sure they were stuck to the radio with some feeling intense fear while others were feeling righteous anger which led to unstoppable resolve to finish what Japan had started.
My dad was 20 years old in 1941. He was listening to a football game on the radio when the news was announced that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. I never did ask him if the broadcast of the game continued after the initial announcement of the attack. Anyway, my dad was training to be a civilian air traffic controller. He was never drafted since he was needed in the US to help manage the transport of military planes across the US to overseas deployment, as well as manage civilian and commercial air traffic. I might not be here if he had been drafted.
We didn't start it, but we damned well finished it.
The US was already at war in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time.
@@MarkHarrison733 Shut up!!! Just shut up freak!!! Nobody gives a crap!
I miss my great grandpa
I remember my Mother
Telling me
That her and her mother
We're on their way to Sunday Mass
When the announcement aired
My mother and father were married on Saturday, 6 Dec 1941.
this is fantastic, so much humor in the broadcast, I did not expect that.
Great production!
Interesting to hear the speculations about how the attack will be handled. Only 29 Japanese aircraft were shot down. The b-17s mentioned were all damaged or destroyed.
years from Now they will be listening to 9/11 as it happend
I'm sure that people do hear it.
Really? Turn on your TV this 9/11
They’ll be watching instead of listening.
Absolutely true. When I called my dad on 9/11 (he didn't tend to turn on the TV or even the radio during the day so I wanted to tell him to turn the TV on), he said, "This is YOUR Pearl Harbor." My parents were out raking leaves on December 7, 1941, and didn't find out about the attack until they came back into the house and turned the radio on.
I actually DID hear about 9/11 on the radio.
My late grandmother said she was doing laundry
Mine was worried about 4 brothers heading to war. They all came home.
This created the best generation of men and women.
It didn’t think that the networks recorded newscasts.
I wonder if anyone, back then, yelled, "Fake News!"
Those were the days you listened intently because you knew it was true. You trusted the news. Wow! How different now.
We may perceive that it was true back then, but I don't think that is very true. The TV served as a great collectivist propaganda machine since it's propagation. Little left steps at the beginning, big left steps now.
It was a false flag attack, like the Greer incident.
This radio would put me to sleep
I'm doubtful as to the credibility of this audio, as Thailand was know throughout the world and especially in the west as Siam until 1949.
LOVE THIS❤💋
Back when people were real. Real men. Real women. Shame how we won, but lost.
Profound and true statement
I'm still a real man. Aren't you?
Shame you feel we lost. I feel we won. Japan had every opportunity to surrender before Hiroshima, then the before Nagasaki, yet they chose to let those cities burn.
We won. The end.
@@TheBear470 They didn't surrender for several reasons that's like Russia bombing america we wouldn't just lay down arms immediately afterwards
It was a very tragic day and my friend Ed Gruber a Navy Correspondent in Korea had the privilege of escorting VIPs like the Andrews Sisters and actor John Wayne to what's left of the USS Arizona which was America's first war grave.
July 8, 1853.
my grandma was born on 1941
رعب والله وانا ما عشت اللحظه الله يبعدنا عن الحروب
58:30
In essence, Japan was walking along a trail past an 800 lb Bengal tiger and decided to poke it in the eye. It then got what it got.
"..the US Army has been converted to communism..." 😂
How disconcerting
I swear there may be a blue Time Warner EAS screen here somewhere lol
We had one of them too but sold it too we should have kept it too ours was a phillco Ford too kh
The Japanese had every opportunity for peace , but chose to "AWAKEN THE SLEEPING GIANT".
Wrong
The West invaded the East
Russia wars with Japan
USA in Phillipinrs
Dutch in Indonesia
French in Indochina(Vietnam)
The British, everywhere
Missionaries , everywhere
@@stevenmoreno2888 U.S. in Philippines- Spanish American war. Nothing to do with Japan. What other countries did to other countries that the U.S. was not in has NOTHING to do with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and pissing off the U.S. that didn't want to get involved in a war. Pay attention!
Japan needed oil. US controlled the oil and embargoed Japan. Japan wanted to strike the pacific fleet and set up defensive positions and hope to negotiate to keep seized territory .
@@JasonF314 japan could've stopped being a bitch and they would have had some oil
imagine you told someone back then that in the future there was gonna be this thing called the internet where everyone was gonna gather around and listen to this broadcast all over again and have a discussion about it .. they would've said you're full of shit lol
Strange to think, but war then seems simple compared to the prospect of world war now. I feel like world war now would see a larger civilian casualty than military. Sodiers are good at not getting killed. Civilians are much worse at feeding themselves. With that in mind, somehow civilians are less concerned about war now than they were then even though we have much more to lose now than we did then.
09:00 - 10:00 LOL!
The Britons were hoodwinked by Uncle Joe
We could have a repeat of this, again, in the Pacific, but with the Chinese this time.
I'm no military strategy expert, but I suspect that if we ever do get into a war with China, it'll start in the waters that China claims as its own and the US (among other countries) claims are international waters.
If there is war between China-USA it won’t be conventional. It will be nuclear. No winners. Let’s pray the nuclear candle is never lit. Give peace a chance.
@Sebastian Guevara No Way-
Give peace a chance.
There are no winners in a nuclear exchange nimrod.
after about 20 minutes they started repeating the same program...3 times on the total show....repeating the same format 3 times
They were repeating the only information they had at the time, for the benefit of all the listeners who were told by a neighbor or friend, "The Japanese attacked us! Go turn on your radio!" I took a minute or two for that tube radio to "warm up," so people were joining the broadcast at different times. That let them hear the whole thing.
You know pres roosevelt was probably the only pres to go through the great depression and ww2 and served as president more then any other and had polio what a brave and tough man
Not again !!!.❤❤❤👣🕊🌎🗽