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World History

captain queeg

(11,780 posts) Tue Sep 12, 2023, 04:11 AM Sep 2023

Wow, I was just listening to Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech after Pearl Harbor was attacked [View all]

Early in Roosevelt's speech to congress he said “indeed one hour after Germany’s air squadrons started bombing…”. I can’t believe I’d never heard that mentioned anywhere before. Pretty big faux pa, but I’m sure he was already thinking about war with Germany rather than Japan.

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Wow, I was just listening to Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech after Pearl Harbor was attacked [View all] captain queeg Sep 2023 OP

I listened to the original speech True Blue American Sep 2023 #1

''one hour after Japanese air squadrons had "commenced" bombing ... " Donkees Sep 2023 #2

After a wide search, I can only find SpamWyzer Sep 2023 #3

See clip below. There's a series put out by the US govt captain queeg Sep 2023 #5

It's about 2 1/2 or e minutes into this clip captain queeg Sep 2023 #4

He is still saying ''one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing ... " in this video Donkees Sep 2023 #6

I don't know. You must not be looking at the same video as me. captain queeg Sep 2023 #7

I clicked on the video you posted, I listened again just now, he still says ''Japanese ... '' Donkees Sep 2023 #8

Can you send me the link or what you are looking at? captain queeg Sep 2023 #9