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[Pearl Harbor First Hand]

Description: Article written by Jeanne Maverick Cusack discussing her firsthand account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with her husband and young daughter. She recounts taking cover in her bathtub before being transferred to the military barracks with the rest of the women and children. Mrs. Cusack then retells her time spent on a transport bus to Honolulu where she would be met with Red Cross workers at Kawana Nakoa High School. She tells of taking care of her daughter Jill while waiting to be evac… more
Date: May 1942
Creator: The Ogontz School for Young Ladies
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Clipping: Medal for Three Who Died in Service Received Here]

Description: Newspaper clipping announcing that three Fort Worth women received Purple Heart Medals awarded to members of their families who died in the service. On the right side there is a photograph labeled "Mrs. Howard" showing Dennis Leroy's mother with a Purple Heart Medal pinned to her dress collar.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Grover Bishop, March 1, 1936]

Description: Letter sent by Grover Barron Bishop to his father discussing life at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He discusses getting used to the climate in California, his chances at getting into a military academy, a letter he received from a girl in Sherman, one of his peer's letters, and being made Recruit Chief Petty Officer.
Date: March 1, 1936
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Clipping: Resident Records First Pearl Harbor Message]

Description: Xerox copy of a newspaper clipping from the Durant Daily Democrat regarding the radio message sent to San Diego Naval Base and transcribed by Ples Harmon Finley, Jr., informing the Continental United States of the attacks occurring on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: 196X
Creator: Durant Daily Democrat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Edward E. Randall, September 5, 2006]

Description: Letter from Edward E. Randall providing his personal account of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 after reading his mother's, Ruth Elizabeth Randal, and sister's, Patricia Randall Watts, accounts. He builds on his mother's and sister's accounts, describing the events of the attack and its aftermath, and also tells new accounts of the Randall family's life during and after the war.
Date: September 5, 2006
Creator: Randall, Edward E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: 21.486667 -158.043889
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Clipping: Ensign's Pearl Harbor Heroism Rewarded Threefold Since Death]

Description: Newspaper article describing the posthumous Medal of Honor awarded to Ensign Herbert C. Jones's widow, Joanne Herlick, as well as two more awards years later. The article details Mrs. Herlick (formerly Mrs. Jones) perspective of the December 7th Pearl Harbor attack. There is a portrait of Herbert C. Jones in his white Navy dress uniform in the top right corner.
Date: December 8, 1991
Creator: Parker, J. Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Herber R. Roach to Joanne Herlick, January 28, 1992]

Description: Letter sent by U.S.S. California crewmember Herbert Roach to Joanne Herlick, the widow of Ensign Herbert C. Jones. The letter describes how Ensign Herbert C. Jones and he had been together at the time Ens. Jones received his fatal wounds and how the officer had ordered him to help others rather than himself.
Date: January 28, 1992
Creator: Roach, Herbert R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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