Reaction to Pearl Harbor

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Childers, Lloyd Segment 2
Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...
Kuroki, Ben Segment 2
Ben Kuroki’s B-24 outfit was called to North Africa to help out with the British forces who were going against Rommel....
Stegmeier, James L. Segment 2
Stegmeier was told that he had shrapnel on his lung and that his feet appeared to be frozen. One doctor wanted to...
Baker, Dan Segment 3
Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command...
Connick Sr., Harry Segment 3
Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 3
Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...
Bacon, Giles Segment 3
In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...
Wicker, Benjamin Segment 3
Wicker was not fast enough so his buddy would help him swim along in the water [Annotator’s Note: during the attack on...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 3
15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 4
A few minutes after 7:00 [Annotator's Note: 7:00 a.m., 7 December 1941] one of the plotters made some entries on the...
Bacon, Giles Segment 4
[Annotators Note: Giles Bacon enlisted in the USMC in January 1939. He was assigned as a brig guard at Pearl Harbor and...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 4
Baptiste had a janitorial service. One of his clients was a doctor who stayed on Corregidor [Annotator's Note:...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 5
On 1 September 1942 Tyler was transferred to the 44th [Annotator's Note: 44th Fighter Squadron] at Bellows Field as...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 5
James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 5
The ship went into the Atlantic. Vejtasa's ship met up with the Ranger, CV-4 [Annotator's Note: USS Ranger (CV-4)]....
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 5
Kanaya felt that living during the Depression years and learning to live under those conditions, working and living on...
Bacon, Giles Segment 5
Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...
McClellan, James Segment 5
McClellan did not keep in touch with any of the men he served with after the war. He never attended any reunions. He...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 5
They went to the South Pacific to the Solomons [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. The ship was pretty crowded.At Mare...
Gardner, Clinton Segment 6
Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 6
The first board Tyler went before was the Roberts Commission. He also went before army and navy boards. The boards were...
Benario, Janice "Janice Martin" Segment 6
Janice Benario met her future husband at a Latin seminar at Johns Hopkins. Benario’s husband took a position at Emory...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 6
The USS New Orleans [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS New Orleans, CA32] was a sister ship to the San...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 6
The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...
Bacon, Giles Segment 6
Giles Bacon has seen some of the movies made about Pearl Harbor in recent years. He thinks the most accurate is Tora!...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 7
James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...
Bacon, Giles Segment 7
Giles Bacon remembers that the Japanese aircraft were close enough to shoot at, which he did. He had no idea if he hit...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 7
After Baptiste left the Solomons he was sent to new construction. He was sent to the hospital because he lost his...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 8
Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...
Disanza, William Segment 8
William Disanza was in the Boy Scouts as a kid but it did not prepare him for Burma. Disanza had originally joined the...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 8
When the 12 ships in his squadron hit Diamondhead [Annotator's Note: the volcanic crater on Oahu, Hawaii], 6 went south...
Merrill, Milford "Bud" Segment 9
The Saratoga [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3] was getting ready to leave San Diego for Pearl...
Bacon, Giles Segment 9
Giles Bacon thinks it is very important that The National World War II Museum exists. History is not being taught well...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 9
The Medusa [Annotator's Note: USS Medusa (AR-1)] was not far from them [Annotator’s Note: during the attack on Pearl...
Conter, Louis "Lou" Serving Aboard the USS Arizona
Louis Conter accompanied a friend's brother to the Navy recruiting station so that the individual could reenlist....
Flynn, David Serving Aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
David Flynn describes life on the Houston [Annotator's Note: USS Houston (CA-30)] as very busy; he never had a chance...

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