Research Guides: QPME: Marines in Pearl Harbor: Documents

Primary Sources

The raid drew automatic reactions from the few Marines in the navy yard who saw the first enemy planes diving on the ships... By 0801 when Colonel Pickett ordered the defense battalion machine-gun groups to man their weapons, eight of the guns had already been set up.

from US Marines at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941

Overview of The Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
An extensive list of links to command, medical and salvage reports, lesson plans, oral histories and survivor reports. Naval History and Heritage Command.
Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary
Articles, historic video, and other resources remembering and events commemorating the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the National Archives.
WW2 Operational Document: Antiaircraft action summary covering antiaircraft actions from Pearl Harbor to Dutch Harbor, December 1941 to July 1942. Information bulletin no. 20.
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Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library

Speeches and Personal Papers

'A Date Which Will Live in Infamy': The First Typed Draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Address
Includes audio xcerpt from the 'Day of Infamy' radio address.
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Freeman, Elsie, Wynell Burroughs Schamel and Jean West. "'A Date Which Will Live in Infamy'": The First Typed Draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Address." Social Education 55, 7 (November/December 1991): 467-470.

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