WHAT GOD DID AT PEARL HARBOR

 This was posted on Facebook by John Guy he posted . . . this little bit of history was shared by James L. Holly on October 25, 2019.  John Guy wrote . . . What God did at Pearl Harbor that Day is interesting and I never knew this little bit of history even though I have a Master's Degree in History. 

Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes.  I went into a small gift shop to kill time.  In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.

Sunday December 7th, 1941 Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C.  He was paged and told there was a phone call for him.  When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone.

He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.  The Admiral landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941.  There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat --- you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.

On Christmas Day, 1941, Admiral Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.  Big sunken Battleships and Naval vessels cluttered the waters everywhere you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all of this destruction?"

Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice.  He said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America, which do you think it was?"

Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do you mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make?"

Nimitz explained, "Mistake number one: The Japanese attacked on a Sunday morning.  Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave.  If those same ships had been lured to sea and had sunk --- we would have lost 38,000 men, instead of 3,800.

"Mistake number two:  When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined up in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite of those ships.  If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those ships to America to be repaired.  As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised.  One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed to America.  And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.

"Mistake number three:  Every drop of fuel in the Pacific Theater of War is on top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that  hill.  One attack plane could have have destroyed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply.  That is why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make, or God was taking care of AMERICA!


Starlight here.  I found this article very interesting.  I just had to share it with my fellow bloggers.


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