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Eyewitness Accounts by Survivors | Heroes in the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Eyewitness and Survivor Accounts

Learn from people that lived to tell about that day.

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Accounts by Crewmembers

USS Arizona
USS California
USS California more
U.S.S. California survivor learns of his own "death"
USS Oklahoma
USS Pennsylvania
USS Sumner
USS Sunnadin
USS Tangier
U.S.S. Utah
USS Vestal
Fort Shafter (radar information center) Radar sighting of Japanese planes is ignored
Kanehoe Naval Air Station
Ford Island - Navy Patrol Squadron
Hickam Field - Army Air Corps Sergeant
Navy radio operator flys with search plane between attacks.

Casualty List

Click to see the list of the people that didn't survive the attack
(new and improved - now searchable by ship,rank,service,more)