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“Catholic, Jews and Protestants being in the same unit often really broke down White ethnic and religious lines,” explained Piehler. His presence, like those of thousands of other clergy circulating among the troops in the heat of battle, helped forge a new American identity, according to Piehler. chaplains are trained to support troops of all faiths, regardless of their own religious affiliation. Schmitt, a Catholic priest, like all chaplains was exempt from the draft and volunteered for combat duty. Schmitt rushed below deck to help trapped sailors, after it was broadsided by torpedoes. Like Baum, Schmitt went down with the ship. Earl Baum, killed in Pearl Harbor attack, buried at Tallahassee National Cemetery Friday.Sailor killed in Pearl Harbor, identified through DNA, will be buried in Tallahassee.7, 1941. Among the Pearl Harbor stories Piehler recounts is that of Chaplain Aloyusis Schmitt, who served on the Oklahoma with Baum. Though December 7th is more balanced than most propaganda films of the time, even suggesting that the United States should have been better prepared, it is still an indictment of Japanese-Hawaiians and the alleged role they may have played.View Gallery: Funeral honoring Earl Baum, Navy Sailor who died in Pearl HarborĮarl Baum, the first combat fatality to be buried at the Tallahassee National Cemetery, was among the 429 USS Oklahoma crew members who drowned when their ship was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese airplanes on Dec. C (that's 'C' for 'Conscience') the film attempts to determine who was to blame. Framed as a debate between Walter Huston's Uncle Sam and Harry Davenport's Mr. government and directed by acclaimed cinematographer Gregg Toland, is a dramatization of the events that precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. *December 7th, produced on behalf of the U.S.

This is a story of perseverance and heroism in the face of overwhelming odds. Most importantly, it is a story of the people who were there, told through eyewitness accounts of American and Japanese veterans, some of whose stories have never been told. This story details one of the most momentous events in American history and a crucial turning point in the 20th century. On the morning of December 7, 1941, a surprise attack by Japanese naval aviation against the American held island of Oahu and Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II.

A day of infamy