The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. A docked mine sweeper. Personal caption: "A mine sweep." Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No date

Photograph. Crossroads of the Pacific directional sign at Kau-Kau Korner in Hawaii. Personal caption: "25 Sept[ember]...

Photograph. Servicemen in swim trunks standing, sitting, and lying down at a pool. Note serviceman diving into pool....

Photograph. Docked submarines. Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No date

Photograph. An unidentified submarine. Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No date

Photograph. A submarine in the water. Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No date

Photograph. Gun turret aboard a submarine. Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No date

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Bernice Williams was in Milwaukee [Annotator's Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin] and heard about the attack [Annotator's Note...

John Finn was on the opposite side of the island from Pearl Harbor, at Kaneohe Bay, and he heard terrible explosions,...

John Laborde was at home and sitting down to Sunday lunch when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was in ROTC [...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

Oral History