Posted by El Toro on December 07, 2010 at 07:50:37 from (108.3.200.96):
In Reply to: Dec. 7, 1941 posted by Doug Boll on December 07, 2010 at 07:29:37:
I was only 8 years old when that happened. My mother and my wife's mother both went to work in a defense plant making 20mm ammo. People came far and near to work there. Just about everything was rationed and you needed ration stamps for just about everything. My mom was given extra gas stamps since she had worked at a defense plant. She also could get recap tires when she needed them with more ration stamps. Sugar was another item that was rationed. Farmers didn't have have a problem getting gas. Shoes were item that was rationed. We use to get new heels and soles on our old shoes. They would wear for a long time then. WE should've given Bin Laden what we gave Japan and that would've stopped all this fighting. I watched a show on the Military channel about WW I when a General said if we don't kick the Germans butt now we will have to do it at a later date. It was in 1933 only 15 years later Hitler started building up his army and air force to take over Europe. The sad part of Pearl Harbor that Billy Mitchell told the brass in Washington that Japan was going to war and this was in the late 1930's and it all fell on deaf ears. Hal
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