He also includes a story of his wife building an impromptu bomb shelter using mattresses. He makes several observations about the day of the attack and the reporting of the attack by radio. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection is WSB-TV newsfilm footage of a Deceminterview with an unidentified military admiral who describes his experience living by Pearl Harbor. The interview is part of the Veterans History Project.įrom the Walter J. During this interview, he describes watching a B-24 Liberator bomber burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Army Air Forces, at Hickam Field, Hawaii during World War II. Gray served as a lieutenant colonel in the 17th Air Base Group, U.S. Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center is an oral history interview with Denver D. The Digital Library of Georgia includes historic image, video, and oral history resources that feature first-hand information about the Pearl Harbor attack and the observation of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.įrom our partners at the James G. On Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, all federal agencies and interested organizations are encouraged to fly the United States flag at half-staff in honor of those who died at Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States entered World War II by declaring war on Japan. More than 2,400 Americans, mostly non-combatants, were killed. Seventy-four years ago, on December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the Pearl Harbor naval station on Oahu Island in Hawaii. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Gene Yearwood, Pearl Harbor veteran, with Marines at Pearl Harbor commemoration ceremonies, Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Georgia, December 7, 1988.ĪJCPov01-031CD, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives.
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