Comments by "Frank DeMaris" (@kemarisite) on "The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 1 - The Smoke Clears" video.

In December 1941, Vestal was captained by Cassin Young, who was blown off the ship by the explosion of the Arizona. He swam back, boarded his ship, countermanded an "abandon ship" order, and ordered the ship to get under way and move away from Arizona. Cassin Young would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on December 7, 1941, and go on to take command of USS San Francisco on November 9, 1942. He would be killed in action engaging Hiei at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal four days later, an action for which he would receive a posthumous Navy Cross.
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@charlesadams1721 Arizona, I think you mean. West Virginia was recovered and fought at Surigao Strait, among other actions.
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@alessandrorizzuti7857 the "usual" blood libel against FDR is that he knew about the attack ahead of time and let it happen to get into the war. There is no evidence to support that claim either. FDR was a focused on the war in Europe and trying to provoke Germany into the first overt act of war, either a declaration or something that could not be ignored. (Apparently sinking the Reuben James didn't cut it). The notion that the US killed several thousand of it's own people in order to get into a war in the wrong theater is bat-guano insane.
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@janvanv there is a town on the other side of the Cascades, Othelo, with a feedlot that earns it the moniker "Oh-smello".
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There is, I'm sure, a reason why Spartacus Olesen only releases a War Against Humanity video, of 10-15 minutes length, every two weeks.
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In the long run, the Japanese knew they had no chance of winning a war with the US. Their only chance of winning, as they well knew, was to get such a big lead at the outset that the American people simply give up and accept the Japanese demands.
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Maine was 50 years ago, Lusitania was sunk two years before US entry into WW1, and the US did not declare war on either Japan or Germany after the sinkings of the Panay and Reuben James. I guess the last one didnt get enough Americans killed or wasn't a big enough loss to justify FDR asking for a declaration of war, presumably because it might not have passed Congress. It's not like FDR was trying to avoid a war with Germany, what with the ridiculously large neutrality patrol zone, Lend-Lease, escorting convoys of British war material, reporting the locations of German ships in the clear, shoot on site orders against u-boats, and actual attacks on u-boats by US ships.
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