Pearl Harbor Child
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In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, award-winning author Dorinda Nicholson is releasing her book "Pearl Harbor Child" in ebook!<br><br>Years ago, I was told by a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivor's Association that I was too young to remember the attack, and I couldn't have been a civilian survivor of Pearl because, "there were no civilians, much less children, living inside the Harbor." He was wrong. I was there with my family, not on a burning ship, but close enough to see the burning ships anchored near our home.<br><br>Today, I still vividly remember watching the attack, I vividly remember the events, and I still remember his doubting comments. At first, I felt discounted and hurt by his skepticism. But now I am grateful. Grateful that it prompted me to ask lots of questions, do some research, and then write Pearl Harbor Child.<br><br>His doubting comment encouraged me to search for books, memoirs, and articles that might support the fact that civilians did indeed live in Pearl. When I couldn't find any, I began to doubt myself. The evidence that there was a neighborhood of civilians on the Pearl City Peninsula unexpectedly surfaced on a map taken from the dead body of a Japanese mini-submarine pilot. His map targeted the position of each ship in the harbor, and also detailed something else: the streets of our small civilian community on the peninsula, including Jean Street, where we lived and where I grew up.<br><br>December 7, 1941 is "a date that will live in infamy," according to President Roosevelt's famous speech. And for me, and thousands of others, it's true. Each year on that date, my thoughts always turn back to that incredible Sunday when bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.
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Dorinda MD Nicholson. Pearl Harbor Child
FOREWORD
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
A Pearl Harbor Legend: The Little Yellow Shark
1—My Family Moves to Pearl Harbor
2—Sunday Morning, December 7, 1941
WATCHING THE BATTLESHIPS BURN
EVACUATION TO A SUGAR MILL
3—December 8th: Confusion, Fear and No Information
4—Where’s Hula Girl?
5—Adjusting to a New Life
FOOD BECOMES SCARCE
6—Hawaii in the War Years
UGLY BARBED WIRE AND DINGY BOMB SHELTERS
CAMOUFLAGE AND BAYONETS
GAS MASKS
MONEY
BLACKOUTS AND CURFEWS
CENSORSHIP
RATIONING
7—Salvage, Victory Gardens, and War Bonds
VICTORY GARDENS
WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
8—The War Drags On
9—Japanese-Americans in Hawaii
THE FIGHTING 442nd REGIMENT
10—War is Over—Peace at Last!
11—Surrender Document Signed on Battleship USS Missouri
12—The Navy Takes Our Home
13—A Sad Farewell to the Harbor
Epilogue—Discovering Our Pearl Harbor Band
Other Stories of the Pearl Harbor Attack. Arthur C. Harris, Honolulu Policeman
M.Sgt. Richard Fiske, Marine Corps bugler, USS West Virginia
George Kahanu, welder in naval shipyard
Our Neighbors in Pearl City—Americans of Japanese Ancestry
Melvin E. Jones (Jonesie), Navy barber aboard USS Nevada
The Forgotten Pearl Harbor Memorial, The USS Utah—Overlooked by All but Her Surviving Crew
Captain Jim Daniels, Fighting Squadron Six, U.S. Navy, based on the USS Enterprise
Area Map
Postscript
References/Credits. References
Credits—Photographs, illustrations
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Dorinda and I first met on a misty, rainy morning in Hawaii. We were co-presenters, sharing a microphone as we told the story of December 7th for a shipboard audience while circling Ford Island inside Pearl Harbor. Her comments that day were from this book about a native-born child living in the harbor, and were blended with thoughts and perspectives from my military viewpoint and background. Later, our joint presentation, which began in the rain, was ended by an unforgettable double rainbow that appeared as we sailed out of the harbor.
As a WWII submarine commander and later an author of books about war and military history, I have always been fascinated with Pearl Harbor and what happened there. But until I met Dorinda that day, my knowledge of the attack was based on media reports and writings by other military authors and military reports, the reminiscences of naval persons who were there.
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