Pearl Harbor Survivors

Author : Harry Spiller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786481866

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Pearl Harbor Survivors by Harry Spiller Pdf

On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was a major victory for the Japanese Navy, which in less than two hours destroyed 188 American planes, damaged another 159, and sunk or seriously damaged 18 U.S. warships. The battleships Arizona and Oklahoma were sunk. The battleships California, West Virginia and Tennessee were badly damaged and would not rejoin the United States fleet for months. Over 2,400 American military personnel were killed and 1,178 were wounded. The Japanese lost 29 planes and pilots, five midget submarines and one large sub with their crews. Here are 24 personal accounts of servicemen who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor. These accounts cover in detail the location of each man and his experience during and after the actual attack. Also included is general information about Pearl Harbor.

Author : Bill Jim Davis,Jim Davis Bill Jim Davis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440128950

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Abandon Ship! by Bill Jim Davis,Jim Davis Bill Jim Davis Pdf

Abandon Ship is a fascinating account of enlisted life onboard U.S. naval warships in the Pacific Theater during WW2. Bill Jim Davis, the author, provides a riveting account of what it was like for him as a young seaman during those hazardous times. Amazingly, his individual experiences took him from the attack on Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, to the Japanese mainland, and from a new recruit to a commissioned officer by war's end. The reader gets a vivid, blow by blow account of the war in the Pacific. Anyone who wishes to see the war in the Pacific from the well trained eyes of a young sailor will find great value in this book. We, as a nation, are forever indebted to the young Davis and countless others like him who answered the call to duty and performed with valor. Such accounts are an invaluable reminder to future generations of the sacrifice, courage, and vigilance required to maintain the liberty and freedom we all enjoy in our great nation. Those young men and women who aspire to service in the United States Navy would be well served by reading this book.

Author : Kira Freed
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499436501

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Surviving Pearl Harbor by Kira Freed Pdf

This compelling resource chronicles the memorable events of December 7, 1941, the day that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, provoking the United States into entering World War II. Readers will see the attack through the eyes of survivors, such as Donald Kirby Ross, the first WWII–era recipient of the Medal of Honor, and Lee Embree, who took the first air-to-air photos of Japanese planes and pilots in the attack. Beyond Pearl Harbor, the Ni‘ihau Incident and the assault on Oahu’s airfields are also explained.

Author : Donald Stratton,Ken Gire
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062645371

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All the Gallant Men by Donald Stratton,Ken Gire Pdf

The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor “An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan’s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor’s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona—ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates—approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors’ advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America’s Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable—and remarkably inspiring—memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years. *Library Journal

Author : Thomas B. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : 1413190383

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Remember Pearl Harbor by Thomas B. Allen Pdf

Gives accounts by American and Japanese survivors of The Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.

Author : Beth Bailey,David Farber
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700628131

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Beyond Pearl Harbor by Beth Bailey,David Farber Pdf

In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the Pacific: Kota Bharu on the northeast coast of Malaya (now Malaysia); Thailand, the one site not claimed by a western power; Pearl Harbor, O’ahu; Singapore, key to the defense of Britain’s Asian empire; Guam, the only island in the Mariana chain not controlled by Japan; Wake Island; Hong Kong; and the Philippines. Told from multiple perspectives, the stories of these attacks reveal the arc of imperialism, colonialism, and burgeoning nationalism in the Pacific world. In Beyond Pearl Harbor renowned scholars hailing from four continents and representing six nations reinterpret the meaning of the coordinated, and devastating, attacks of December 7/8, 1941. Working from a variety of angles, they revise and expand, to an unprecedented extent, what we understand about these events—in particular, how Japan’s overwhelming, if short-lived, victories contributed to emerging solidarities and nationalist identities within and across Pacific societies. In their essays we see how various elite actors incorporated the attacks into new regimes of knowledge and expertise that challenged and displaced existing hierarchies. Extending far beyond Pearl Harbor, the events of December 1941, as we see in this volume, are part of a story of clashing empires and anti-colonial visions—a story whose outcome, even now, remains to be seen.

Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451660517

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Pearl Harbor by Craig Nelson Pdf

“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” (Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : UIUC:30112046512148

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Pearl Harbor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Donald D Deignan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1478781572

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The Shadow of Sacrifice by Donald D Deignan Pdf

A multifaceted and timely work of nonfiction military and social history, THE SHADOW OF SACRIFICE: The True Story of a Pearl Harbor Survivor and his Nephew and Namesake redeems an outstanding "Debt of Honor." Seventy-five years ago, "Remember Pearl Harbor!" was the poignant and powerful slogan which rallied a badly shaken nation and galvanized the American people to win World War II. On December 7, 1941 twenty-seven year old Private First Class Joseph J. Deignan of Worcester Massachusetts (pronounced DEGGNAN) was strafed by low-flying Japanese war planes while he was serving as an Army Field Artilleryman at Schofield Barracks on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Little more than two months later, Deignan was dead. His mother believed that her youngest son, baptized as Donald, succumbed to wounds received as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor and its military environs. After World War II Donald's oldest brother, Frank, a U.S. Army veteran of the Pacific Campaign, came home, married, and fathered a son. Frank named that boy "Donald" in memory of his lost, heroic youngest brother. Donald Joseph's "supreme sacrifice" has positively influenced the life and career of his nephew and namesake. In fact, the bequest of his uncle's name has proven to be both a talisman and a blessing to Don Deignan, the author of this book. Although the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is the pivotal event in THE SHADOW OF SACRIFICE, this work is not primarily about that occurrence. Rather, chance, choice and consequence are the themes which inextricably link two spiritually connected lives together over the span of much more than a century. From their impoverished family origins in pre-Famine Ireland down to the present day, Donald Joseph Deignan and his nephew, Don Deignan, have been bound together by ties of Faith, shared adversity, abiding love and mutual loyalty. Donald Joseph grew up in poverty and endured unemployment after which he met a sudden and violen

Author : Earl J. "Chuck" Kohler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1630100196

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Chuck Kohler by Earl J. "Chuck" Kohler Pdf

Chuck Kohler frequently attends meetings of the Pearl Harbor Survivors and Sons & Daughters, Chapter 5, Contra Costa Co., California and the annual Mount Diablo Memorial Beacon Lighting Pearl Harbor Remembrance on December 7th. We always enjoy hearing what Chuck did during the attack on Pearl Harbor (shooting 50-caliber bullets into a Japanese plane!) and Chuck always remembers the 2,400+ lost during the attack. Second to none, Chuck is another amazing, generous and honorable member of "The Greatest Generation".

Author : Dick Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0965697223

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Pearl Survivors by Dick Jensen Pdf

Salute to U S veterans who survived the date "that will live in infamy"

Author : Homer N. Wallin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : 0898755654

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Pearl Harbor by Homer N. Wallin Pdf

Pearl Harbor will long stand out in mens minds as an example of the results of basic unpreparedness of a peace loving nation, of highly efficient treacherous surprise attack and of the resulting unification of America into a single tidal wave of purpose to victory. Therefore, all will be interested in this unique narrative by Admiral Wallin. The Navy has long needed a succinct account of the salvage operations at Pearl Harbor that miraculously resurrected what appeared to be a forever shattered fleet. Admiral Wallin agreed to undertake the job. He was exactly the right man for it _ in talent, in perception, and in experience. He had served intimately with Admiral Nimitz and with Admiral Halsey in the South Pacific, has commanded three different Navy Yards, and was a highly successful Chief of the Bureau of Ships. On 7 December 1941 the then Captain Wallin was serving at Pearl Harbor. He witnessed the events of that shattering and unifying "Day of Infamy." His mind began to race at high speeds at once on the problems and means of getting the broken fleet back into service for its giant task. Unless the United States regained control of the sea, even greater disaster loomed. Without victory at sea, tyranny soon would surely rule all Asia and Europe. In a matter of time it would surely rule the Americas. Captain Wallin salvaged most of the broken Pearl Harbor fleet that went on to figure prominently in the United States Navys victory. So the account he masterfully tells covers what he masterfully accomplished. The United States owes him an unpayable debt for this high service among many others in his long career.

Author : Paul Joseph Travers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493023448

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Eyewitness to Infamy by Paul Joseph Travers Pdf

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II. Yet in the long and fascinating body of literature about this terrible event, most historians have neglected the compelling and moving accounts of the surviving military personnel and civilians who were on Oahu at the time of the attack, at dawn on December 7, 1941. Eyewitness to Infamy is their story—the astonishing oral history of the brutal attack that pushed the United States into WWII on the side of the Allies: the British, French, and Russians. With the help of the Pearl Harbor Survivors’ Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion, Paul Travers collected more than 200 eyewitness accounts from which he painstakingly selected those critical to this behind-the-scenes narrative account. With breathtaking clarity, the narratives cover the full range of military activity on the island, along battleship row, and around the harbor, while portraying the human side of the event—the heroic, the tragic, and the terrible reality of the assault.

Author : Giuseppe Laureno
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798751544188

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After Pearl Harbor Attack by Giuseppe Laureno Pdf

On 7 December 1941, a fleet of Japanese aircraft unleashed a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii. What was it like for those who experienced the raid first-hand? This is a great book if you want to hear the story through the eyes of a very young man, and a common sailor, who was there during the attack. The author was 17 when he joined the U.S. Navy. This was during rough financial times in history. Without a father or mother, the Navy would become his home. He was proud to be a Mexican-American boy, now a part of America's finest. The prospects of learning, and travel, and flying were beyond his wildest dreams. Little did he know that he would be there, One Day In Infamy when America suffered its worst blow in history. The author tells tales, that even to this day in 2015 he hasn't heard anyone else tell. He believes that some of his stories accurately record events that until now haven't been recorded - stories of pride, prejudice, and prostitutes. Most importantly, he believes that a tale from this Pearl Harbor Survivor could help, even if in some small way, so history won't repeat itself. Why did this horrific attack happen? The author knows. This veteran tells you in his book.

Author : Henry Berry
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000077037186

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This is No Drill by Henry Berry Pdf

This powerful collection of first-hand accounts of the events of December 7, 1941, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, are told from the survivors of the attack, in their own words, from all branches of the service.