Remembering Pearl Harbor: Eyewitness Accounts by U.S. Military Men and Women - Couverture souple

Robert S. La Forte was chairman of the history department, professor emeritus of history, and first archivist of the University of North Texas. He was the author or editor of several books and dozens of articles and entries in scholarly journals, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. He graduated from the University of Kansas, where he was a student of Donald R. McCoy. La Forte died in 2014.

Ronald E. Marcello is an author, teacher, and scholar. He is a former coordinator of the Oral History Program and Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas. The author or editor of scores of guides, newsletters, reports, and journal articles, he has lectured widely on oral history and has conducted more than 900 interviews on various topics, including political, military, and civil rights history. He was executive secretary of the Oral History Association from 1976 to 1986 and its president from 1988–1989. He graduated from Duke University, where he studied under Robert Durden.

They survived the “date which will live in infamy.” Now they tell the unofficial story.

Many books have been written about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an unprecedented event that launched the United States into World War II. But here is a rare compilation of eyewitness accounts by those who actually survived the bombing on December 7, 1941.
 
This book is their story. Not the official version from the top brass, but the riveting, clear-as-yesterday accounts of the ordinary soldiers, sailors, airmen, nurses, chaplains, and wives who were at Pearl Harbor, going about their normal lives that fateful Sunday morning. From the burning deck of the Tennessee in the inferno of Battleship Row, from the airfields, from the hospitals, and from the Navy Yard dry docks come the chilling and unforgettable stories of these brave men and women.