Category: Pearl Harbor Attack

  • The Press: The Pearl Harbor Story

    In the Senate caucus room, clouds of tobacco smoke curled up through the hard glare of the Klieg lights, staining the air blue. The 100 newspapermen, jammed shoulder-to-shoulder at press tables that boxed the witnesses in on three sides, like a symphony orchestra around its conductor, scribbled amid a litter of handouts, maps, yellow copy…

  • PEARL HARBOR: They Called It Intelligence

    The Pearl Harbor Committee turned from diplomatic to military witnesses. Two facts were quickly established: 1) the Japs””sometimes through carelessness, sometimes through code messages””gave the U.S. much more advance notice of the Pearl Harbor attack than has been generally realized; 2) thanks to stupidity in Washington and in the field, the U.S. took the least…

  • PEARL HARBOR: Tempting Target

    Down South there was Winston Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida’s sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan’s Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully…

  • National Affairs: PEARL HARBOR:HENRY STIMSON’S VIEW

    In its fifth month of prospecting, the Pearl Harbor Committee at last unearthed a rich find””a broad, deep vein of comment and discussion of the 1941 tragedy by ex-War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, studded with pure history in the form of notes from his diary. Significant excerpts: Nov. 5. Matters are crystallizing . . .…

  • The US Army Medical Department and the Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Source: Condon-Rall, Mary Ellen. “The US Army Medical Department and the Attack on Pearl Harbor.” The Journal of Military History, Jan. 1989, pp. 65”“78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1986020?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Pearl Harbor 1941-1991

    I found this account of my Grandma’s experience as told to my Grandpa Peter Zeimet … as I read it I see the story conflicts of with other information I have gathered along the way … one more piece of the puzzle I may never understand AraBelle Fuller (Zeimet) was a registered nurse working in…

  • Lasting Bonds: A Famous Pearl Harbor Nurse Survivor Remembered

    Source: Messmer, Patricia R, and Marydelle Polk. “Lasting Bonds: A Famous Pearl Harbor Nurse Survivor Remembered.” The Florida Nurse, Dec. 2008, p. 29.

  • One Surgeon’s Army Experience With “Wound Shock” From Pearl Harbor to the Present

    Source: Hardaway, Robert M. “One surgeon”™s army experience with ”˜wound shock”™ from Pearl Harbor to the present.” Military Medicine, vol. 174, no. 9, Sept. 2009, pp. 944”“947.