Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
In the beginning it was all black and white.
I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.
The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.
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