Where Were You December 7th, 1941?
Dec 8, 2014 11:13:06 #
I recall driving from Hamilton, Ont. back to my Grandparent's home in Woodstock in my grandfather's New Plymouth. It had one of those new "Bill Lear" super heterodyne car radios. The Air was full of the attack and my 6 year old imagination had me lying on the front seat floor expecting the Japanese to have ---or soon would---attack Woodstock!
Only One Left Still Flying
Dec 8, 2014 11:25:31 #
Dec 8, 2014 11:42:26 #
Part of me was in Guadalcanal with dad... I made my first appearance 9 months after he returned on a Navy ship.. :-D
Dec 8, 2014 12:01:39 #
TomballLegend wrote:
I recall driving from Hamilton, Ont. back to my Grandparent's home in Woodstock in my grandfather's New Plymouth. It had one of those new "Bill Lear" super heterodyne car radios. The Air was full of the attack and my 6 year old imagination had me lying on the front seat floor expecting the Japanese to have ---or soon would---attack Woodstock!
DOB 12/05/1942, So I was still just a happy thought....
Dec 8, 2014 12:35:02 #
I was 8 years old and we were living in San Antonio, Texas at the time. I remember that Sunday afternoon and seeing the strange looks on the faces of the 'grown-ups'...it looked like they were 'stunned'...and there wasn't much conversation going on...just a whole lot of 'thinking'. San Antone was, and is, a military town, and it wouldn't be long
before it became a beehive of activity, and everybody seemed to be working together in "the war effort"...teamwork was the order of the day...times have sure changed. :thumbup:
before it became a beehive of activity, and everybody seemed to be working together in "the war effort"...teamwork was the order of the day...times have sure changed. :thumbup:
Dec 8, 2014 12:53:19 #
Batman wrote:
I was 8 years old and we were living in San Antoni... (show quote)
Y'all, thanks for stopping by.
Personal note to 'Batman". Much later and I mean later I was running a territory that included San Antone. One of my responsibilities was to develop new territories. I took a look at the population of San Antone and wondered why we could not establish a market for our rather esoteric special plastics when someone explained, "Look at the demographics. The population is better than 30% military. It hadn't changed from when you were little. Merry Christmas everyone!!! :-P
Dec 8, 2014 12:59:03 #
TomballLegend wrote:
Y'all, thanks for stopping by. br Personal note to... (show quote)
Not really sure what "esoteric" plastics are, but spent 32 years manufacturing plain 'ol polyethylene and polypropylene molding compounds in Deer Park, Texas.
Made a good living, too. Vive la linear Polymers!
:thumbup:
Dec 8, 2014 13:41:11 #
Batman wrote:
Not really sure what "esoteric" plastics are, but spent 32 years manufacturing plain 'ol polyethylene and polypropylene molding compounds in Deer Park, Texas.
Made a good living, too. Vive la linear Polymers!:thumbup:
Made a good living, too. Vive la linear Polymers!:thumbup:
Started out at CHR ended with Dodge Fibres, we were the largest convertor of Dupont PTFE Resins, in the free world. Most of our stuff went to the aerospace industry, but we were beginning to emerge from that very narrow, oh, but lucrative market, into civilian use. But I can still point at our products in every NASA bird from Gemini to Apollo. Some might still bear my finger prints.
Dec 8, 2014 22:21:50 #
TomballLegend wrote:
I recall driving from Hamilton, Ont. back to my Grandparent's home in Woodstock in my grandfather's New Plymouth. It had one of those new "Bill Lear" super heterodyne car radios. The Air was full of the attack and my 6 year old imagination had me lying on the front seat floor expecting the Japanese to have ---or soon would---attack Woodstock!
In 12 more days I would be 1 year old.
Dec 9, 2014 05:48:55 #
Dec 9, 2014 06:15:22 #
TomballLegend wrote:
I recall driving from Hamilton, Ont. back to my Grandparent's home in Woodstock in my grandfather's New Plymouth. It had one of those new "Bill Lear" super heterodyne car radios. The Air was full of the attack and my 6 year old imagination had me lying on the front seat floor expecting the Japanese to have ---or soon would---attack Woodstock!
I was 5 months old. I don't really remember too much of that time. LoL. My father, however was in the Australian Army.
Dec 9, 2014 06:25:08 #
richosob
Loc: Lambertville, MI
romanticf16 wrote:
I was still a gleam in my parents eyes for a few years.
So was I.
Rich
Dec 9, 2014 06:25:15 #
I was 3 months old, living in Southern Pines, N. C. I was born at Fort Bragg where my father was serving as a 1st. Lt. as a dental officer.
Dec 9, 2014 06:49:26 #
TomballLegend wrote:
I recall driving from Hamilton, Ont. back to my Grandparent's home in Woodstock in my grandfather's New Plymouth. It had one of those new "Bill Lear" super heterodyne car radios. The Air was full of the attack and my 6 year old imagination had me lying on the front seat floor expecting the Japanese to have ---or soon would---attack Woodstock!
I wasn't around yet, but Dad was at Pearl Harbor that day.
Dec 9, 2014 07:26:36 #
melismus
Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country
None of my 13-year-old boarding-school classmates knew where Pearl Harbor was. It was much harder to Google it in those days.
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