She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Pearl Harbor Attack

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The U.S. At War, Tragedy at Honolulu

    The U.S. Navy was caught with its pants down. Within one tragic hour””before the war had really begun””the U.S. appeared to have suffered greater naval losses than in the whole of World War I.* Days may pass before the full facts become known, but in the scanty news that came through from Hawaii in the…

  • The U.S. At War, CIVILIAN DEFENSE: To Meet the Improbable

    The block wardens met at 8 p.m. in the Borough Hall. It was like a town meeting. The atmosphere was serious, solemn, a little ponderous. They were practical men, met to discuss practical steps to be taken. Nobody suggested the extreme improbability of the Luftwafte bombing this little country town; all the discussion, all the…

  • THE PRESS: Censorship in Action

    To all newspapers and radio stations ”” all those who reach the eyes and ears of the American people ”” I say this: You have a most grave responsibility to the nation now and for the duration of this war. If you feel that your Government is not disclosing enough of the truth, you have…