Reaction to Pearl Harbor

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Earl Williams returned from overseas where he had been in charge of aircraft disposition for the Pacific area. Assigned...
It was the habit of Richard Pipes' college fraternity brothers to sit around and listen to the radio, and it was a...
Jack Lengsfield remembers that he didn't know of the existence of Pearl Harbor until he heard the radio announcement...
After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....
When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Ralph Crump said there was "tremendous panic" in the Los Angeles area. They immediately...
[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout this clip as he had a stroke and has trouble remembering...
Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....
Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. returned to Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] with some of his...
Frank Campisano was happy to go back home. He was single while in the military and was having a good time. He went...
Four days prior to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...
While at the University of Alabama [Annotator's Note: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama], Herndon Inge, Junior was in the infantry...
Donald L. Beeghly was born in Sabetha, Kansas in May 1925. His father worked for Union Pacific but was laid off during...
[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...
Ejnar Christiansen spent the summer of 1940 in Jacksonville, Florida as a cadet on the Danish Merchant Marine training...
[Annotator's Note: Video pauses frequently throughout segment.] Whayland Harvel Greene was born in February 1925 in...
James "Jim" L. Brooks was born in January 1921 in Vinton, Virginia which was a rural area. Though his family lived on a...
Joe Morris was born in Daisy, Georgia in September 1925. Two years later, he and his family moved to Jacksonville [...
Joseph Richard was a welder aboard the USS Rigel (AR-11) when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He took a small boat...
William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. His family moved around frequently because his father worked...
Hugh Ettinger was born in May 1926 in Watertown, New York. His father worked as a civil engineer, and they lived on...
Louis E. Casebonne was born in January 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His mother died when he was five years old and...
Michael Mickey Ganitch was aboard the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in the Pearl Harbor dry-dock on the morning of 7...
Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...
Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...
Loevsky was born on Long Island, New York. He was 1 of 3 children.His father worked in a bronze factory. He was a young...
Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...
[Annotators Note: Interview begins with Theodore Finkbeiner and the interviewer discussing the interview they did three...
John Luckadoo, known as Lucky, was born in March 1922 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He grew up in Chattanooga. It was a...
Robert Zawada began as a member of an I...
Interview begins with the interviewer stating that Senator Inouye is and always will be the most influential Japanese-...
[Annotators Note: Robert Shoens and the interviewer start the interview with some small chat about experiences both men...
Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...
Richard Duchossois was born in October of 1921 in Chicago. His whole family lived, and still lives, in Chicago....
Rogers was born in Saltville, Virginia on 1 January 1915.He graduated from high school in 1932 during the middle of the...
Edward LaPorta was born in Italy in 1917. He grew up and was educated in Italy as well. His dream was to be a...
Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of...

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