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| I imagine that this was how Dad witnessed the attack as the caption on this photo is View of Pearl Harbor, Navy Yard from a site near Mobile Base Hospital #2 during Japanese attack, Dec. 7 1941 |
There was much in the news today, but remembering Pearl Harbor was not one of them. I checked several online news outlets and found only one article, Date of infamy: A look back at the Pearl Harbor attack in The Virginian-Pilot, written by Kurt Snibbe of the Orange County Register.
Pearl Harbor was bombed 82 years ago today. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was almost 21 years old when he witnessed this attack. According to Snibbe's article, the attack lasted about 90 minutes. In all, there were 2,403 U.S. casualties and over 1,000 wounded.
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| Dad was stationed at the Mobile Naval Hospital #2 in the Territory of Hawaii on his 21st birthday (21 December 1941). He remained at that duty station until 1943. |
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Kurt Snibbe,"Date of infamy: A look back at the Pearl Harbor attack," The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), 6 Dec 2023, Pilot-Online (https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/12/06/pearl-harbor-anniversary/: accessed 7 December 2023).
“Photograph of View of Pearl Harbor Navy Yard from a Site Near Mobile Base Hospital #2, 12/07/1941”; General Photographic Files; General Records of the Department of the Navy, Record Group 80; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD [online version, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12009069 National Archives and Records Administration, accessed 7 December 2023).
Whit Criswell Bryan, photograph, 1940s; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA, 2023.
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