She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: 1941

  • NEWSREEL: 12.07.1941 Background

    Pearl Harbor, located near Honolulu, Hawaii, was the site of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Shortly before 8 a.m. that Sunday morning, many Japanese fighter planes descended upon the base. They succeeded in either destroying or causing significant damage to nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, as…

  • TIME CAPSULE: Sunday, December 7, 1941 -18:00

    “The Army Nurse Corps listed fewer than 1,000 nurses on its rolls on 7 December 1941, the day of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Eighty-two Army nurses were stationed in Hawaii serving at three Army medical facilities that infamous morning. Tripler Army Hospital was overwhelmed with hundreds of casualties suffering from severe burns…

  • NEWSREEL: 12.07, 1941 -19:00

    Source: “A Pearl Harbor Fact Sheet – Census.Gov.” Census.Gov, National WWII Museum , 7 Dec. 2001, www.census.gov/history/pdf/pearl-harbor-fact-sheet-1.pdf.

  • NEWSREEL: 12.0 8.1941

    The U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan. Source: “The U.S. and Great Britain Declare War on Japan.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 8 Dec. 1941, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/134906367/

  • NEWSREEL: Day of Infamy Speech

    This item is President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s annotated draft of a proposed message to Congress requesting a Declaration of War against Japan. The speech was dictated by Roosevelt on December 7, 1941 in the hours following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The handwritten notations are Roosevelt’s modifications and corrections to the typewritten first draft.…

  • Medicine: Baby Boom

    The U.S. birth rate has hit a ten-year high in 1941, with an estimated total of 2,500,000 new babies. Every minute during the year, more than four babies were born. Such was the summing up of the U.S. Census Bureau last week. Reasons for this increase, which represents a gain of 140,000 babies over the…

  • NEWSREEL: 12.09.1941 We are now in this war

    Source: “Highlights of Address by Nation”™s Chief Executive.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 1941, p. 6.https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune/134908250/ President Roosevelt has told the American public, “We are now in this war. We are all in it all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American…

  • NEWSREEL: 12.11.1941

    Source: “US Declares War on Germany.” Shamokin News-Dispatch, 31 Dec. 1941, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/shamokin-news-dispatch/134909747/

  • The U.S. At War: Still More Incredible

    Even after the incredible attack on Pearl Harbor nobody dreamed that the West Coast could be in danger from the Japanese coming from 5,500 miles away””any more than anyone dreamed that New York could be in danger from the Germans 3,000 miles off. Then right after sunset Monday the incredible happened again. San Francisco had…