Eyewitness to Infamy: An Oral History of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II. Yet in the long and fascinating body of literature about this terrible event, most historians have neglected the compelling and moving accounts of the surviving military personnel and civilians who were on Oahu at the time of the attack, at dawn on December 7, 1941.

Eyewitness to Infamy is their story—the astonishing oral his...