[Milsurplus] "Under a Jarvis Moon"

[Michael Bittner]

As usual, this same piece of stock film footage is used yet again in this 
film as it is in just about every movie you'll ever see (except Tora,Tora 
Tora) on the Pearl Harbor attack and other battles in the Pacific war.  It 
occurs at about 3 minutes, 33 seconds into the film and supposedly shows 
Japanese dive bombers pealing off for their bomb run.  Those are actually 
U.S, Navy Douglas SBD dive bombers.  In the color films in which these 
appear, they have Japanese roundels painted on the wings.  Nobody cares as 
most people can't tell one plane from another.  Mike, W6MAB
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From: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: <tetrode at googlegroups.com>; <armyradios at yahoogroups.com>; 
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Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 12:15 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] "Under a Jarvis Moon"


> In the 1930s the U.S. Gov’t recruited Hawaiian men to be colonists or 
> place-holders on Jarvis and Howland Islands to stake the U.S. claim to the 
> islands.
> These men were to operate a weather station, and later, to prepare Howland 
> for Amelia Earhart’s refueling landing.  On their own time, the men 
> operated
> the radio equipment in ham radio communications. The Bishop Museum in 
> Honolulu created a documentary about this episode, “Under a Jarvis Moon”.
> Here’s kind of a trailer for the movie, about 6 minutes. Pretty bleak 
> life. No shade trees of any kind; only water was in 50 gallon drums for 
> cooking and
> drinking only. Better bring plenty of sunblocker. Japanese bombed Howland 
> shortly after Pearl, killing 2 of 4 men stationed there.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVWmzvLQZFg


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