PH trip last week

[Ketza]

North shore near where Welsh and Taylor took off.

[Ketza]

North shore beaches. Beautiful!

Next up is a trip to Saipan and Guam hopefully this year. Guadacanal, Iwo Jima, Rabaul and Truk hopefully someday!

[USSAmerica]

Timely and great pics, Ketza! Thanks for sharing!

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Ketza

Looking forward along battleship row from the bridge area.

Hey! I can see my house! [:)]

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Ketza

This mountain was full of pillboxes and concrete observation posts. This is looking towards Bellows field in the far distance.

This picture should be mandatory viewing for anybody who thinks Japan could have taken and held Oahu with two divisions.

[Ketza]

Agreed. As I was driving around the Island I kept thinking too myself no way would a 1941 or 1942 Japanese army would have captured this place. They just did not have what it took offensively to make it happen.

[fbs]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

This picture should be mandatory viewing for anybody who thinks Japan could have taken and held Oahu with two divisions.

That's probably true, but they said the same of Constantinople, Singapore, Crete, Eben-Emael, Maginot Line, Port Arthur, Okinawa and a few other places.

Singapore, Crete and Malta are the closes comparisons, I think so. What these guys have in common is air control, an effective naval blockade and a breakdown in civilian and military morale.

[JocMeister]

Great pics Ketza! Thank you for sharing!

[sandman455]

Great pictures - thank you for sharing!
[&o]

[DOCUP]

Nice pics Ketza.  Was just messin with you earlier.  Where are the hula girls?[:D]

[Mac Linehan]

Ketza -

Great photos! Thank You for sharing.

Mac

[goran007]

ORIGINAL: Ketza

Agreed. As I was driving around the Island I kept thinking too myself no way would a 1941 or 1942 Japanese army would have captured this place. They just did not have what it took offensively to make it happen.

great pictures m8, even my GF enjoyed looking at beaches...
About 1941 December landing, dunno really. Luzon and Malaya was captured by inferior IJA army compared to garrisons there.
to US navy/air force some kind of attack on Pearl was possible but highly unlikely and we know how it ended.
To USA landing and occupation of Hawaii by Japan was unthinkable, i believe army at 07/12/1941 was in so bad shape (locked armories, commanders and men on leave, tanks not serviced properly or without full crews)

If they landed on Pearl attack not even 5 us divisions wouldn't stop 2 IJA ones. Landing on some other day after war started is another matter but on 07/12/1941 US would have had a very bad day.

[jazman]

Nice pics. Heh, I was there Friday, Nov. 30.

I'm a sub guy: here's the Bowfin:

[John 3rd]

NICE! Don't SS just LOOK evil??!!

[jmalter]

SS Bowfin looks a lean, mean machine.

USN Requin in my neighborhood (she's at the Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh) was upgraded several times after WWII, her sail is ~3 times taller & she don't look near as nasty as Bowfin.