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| Pearl Harbor
Eyewitness Accounts: |
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Madelyn
Blonskey - Army Nurse Corps
"As I stepped out of the nurses’ quarters, I had an awful
feeling. Usually, the smell of gardenias and hibiscus from the
garden was delightful. But I smelled the odor of sulfur and
burning oil. I heard some buzzing above me. There were about
twenty very small planes, flying low, almost touching the treetops."
Carl
Carson - Crewman aboard USS Arizona (BB-39)
"Well, I was out on deck doing the morning chores, which
you did every morning… all of a sudden, this plane come along,
and [I] didn’t pay much attention to it; because planes were
landing at Ford Island all the time. And all of a sudden, the
chips started flying all around me and the plane – it was strafing
me…"
Clark
Simmons - Crewman aboard USS Utah (AG-16)
"When I first went down to what they call a battle station,
we all were frightened. We didn’t know what was going on. But
we knew the ship was taking water in and there was no way to
close the water tight doors...it was just a matter of time before
the ship was going to sink. And actually it took 8 minutes…"
Kichiji
Dewa - Japanese Mother Sub, I-16
"We went to places along the Inland Sea of the Japanese
coast, where there were bays like Pearl Harbor’s. We trained
to enter narrow places at night. And we worked in the day, too."
Ruth
Erickson - Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor
My heart was racing, the telephone was ringing, the chief nurse,
Gertrude Arnest, was saying, "Girls, get into your uniforms
at once, This is the real thing!"
Lee
Soucy - Crewman aboard USS Utah (AG-16)
"I had just had breakfast and was looking out a porthole
in sick bay when someone said, "What the hell are all those
planes doing up there on a Sunday?" Someone else said, "It must
be those crazy Marines. They'd be the only ones out maneuvering
on a Sunday."
Horace
D. Warden - USS Breese (DM-18)
"The first thing I remember was the sound of firing and
then they called general quarters. We were not a large ship
so we were not immediately threatened. After the Japanese delivered
their bombs on the large ships they had to come up over us." |
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War II Eyewitness Accounts: |
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William
J. Stanley - First wave at Omaha Beach
"Thinking we were on the beach, the coxswain dropped the ramp,
which was a signal to disembark. We ran into twelve feet of
water. There was widespread panic. The weak and nonswimmers
drowned. The war ended for them one hundred feet from the invasion
on Omaha Beach. The shock, fear, and reality of what happened
is indescribable."
Ellsworth
Wallace Haynes - Guadalcanal
"The war ships had fought the Japanese airplanes all day and
had kept them away from the transports, but just at sunset one
lone torpedo plane got through and hit us with a torpedo and
crashed his plane into the superstructure. That changed my life
forever."
J.D.
Osborne - Japanese POW camp
"Noda caused many men to be beaten and roughly treated.
We were run on a black mark system. If we failed to bow properly,
or caught stealing food, or found smoking more than 6 feet from
an ashean, we received a black mark."
Royden
Stork - Doolittle Raid
"... after we headed out the, out of the Golden Gate, and
headed toward Japan… we knew ... speculated pretty correct that
it was going to be Japan. Especially after Pearl Harbor, and
what they did there."
Bill
Geiger - RAF, Eagle Squadron
"I'd wanted to be a pilot all my life. My uncle was a West
Pointer, and I think he was the second man in the United States
military to be licensed as a pilot. And I always wanted to be
one…I thought if I'd go in the RAF, and... the United States
entered the war, I'll be one of the few that had combat experience,
and that would give me a leg up." |
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