The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. A tugboat. Personal caption: "A tug in dry dock." Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No date

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

Photograph. Servicemen in swim trunks standing, sitting, and lying down at the edge of a pool. Personal Caption: "...

USS Shaw (DD-373) exploding after her magazine was detonated by the fire onboard. Official caption: "Magazine of USS...

Photograph. The USS S-29 (SS-134), a pre-war submarine. Personal caption: "A S boat." Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No...

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

Photograph. Unidentified pre-war ships. Likely Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. No date

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...

Warren J. Haslauer [Annotator's Note: with the 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] was sitting in the mess hall...

Sumner Whitten arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, west of Honolulu. The mess from the attack on Pearl Harbor was...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in the 52nd Defense...

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