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30c Prexie Hawaii Censored Registered 1942

 
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Posted 04/11/2010   2:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add onetoe58 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

Scott Stamp #830. Hawaii cover. censored, Registered, via Clipper.
Censored by K.S. Vandergrift, 2nd Lieutenant
Mailed from Hawaii, Schofield Barracks Station. January 6, 1942
Arrived at San Francisco, California. January 11, 1942
Arrived at Cheyenne, Wyoming. January 12, 1942



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Posted 04/11/2010   3:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There a great piece of postal history.
That is very cool just over a month after Pearl Harbor!
The Schofield Barracks were also attacked, and if I'm not mistaken they got 2 of there fighters off the ground to engage the Japanese. May have been the only 2 to do so, anywhere.
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Here's a fun fact question!

Between Japan & the USA who fired the first shot that brought the US into WW2?
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Is there no one out there who can answer this question?
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Edited by warrehouse - 04/12/2010 12:50 am
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Wow , Nobody is interested in history of WW2!
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Wow , Nobody is interested in history of WW2!


The topic title didn't draw me in...this is the first I've looked.

The first shot in the Hawaiian theater was fired by the U.S. in the sinking of a Japanese mini-sub that was attempting to infiltrate Pearl Harbor. It was the morning of December 7, but prior to the Japanese attack.

I would think most SCF members know that story, no?

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Very good! I think many members may know that. But most of America does not, that is another problem.

Then here is part two to this question:

Where can you currently find the gun that fired the first shot of WW2 by the US Navy that sunk the Japanesse mini-sub?
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Well, now that's easy...St. Paul, Minnesota.

But I can't assume that is common knowledge. I was born in Minnesota.

[Follow up...why is it where it is?]
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Edited by Cjd - 04/12/2010 10:32 pm
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Collin, Way to go. I still live in St Paul, MN.

The gunner that manned that gun was a Minnesotan!

Do you recall where in Saint Paul?
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A driver and a nine iron from the Second Sunday show location. (On the Capitol grounds for those who aren't familiar with the Cities.)
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Not far from Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater.
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