FROM LEFT: Joe Morgan, Navy veteran and Pearl Harbor Survivor's Association member, who fired a machine gun at attacking Japanese planes, as bullets streaked around him. Jane Komeiji, whose mother was accused of trying to warn Hawai'i's Japanese Americans about the attack. Levi Moe Faufata Jr., whose 12-year-old sister was killed in anti-aircraft shelling on Dec. 7. Thompson Yoshinori 'Nori' Izawa, who at age 12 was fishing in Pearl Harbor waters when the attack began.

Introduction

More than a date in history, Dec. 7, 1941, was an event that touched countless lives.

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• An in-depth look at the events leading up to Dec. 7, the attack itself and the attack's aftermath as researched by The Advertiser's Scott Ishikawa and Stephen Downes. Illustrated by Greg Taylor and prepared for the Web by Doug Masuda.

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Memories of the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 remain indelibly eteched in the minds of survivors and witnesses of the Pearl Harbor attack. See and hear their stories as they are interviewed by Lee Cataluna, Advertiser staff writer:

• Ramsay S. Hishinuma, a teen in 1941 who witnessed the bombing from 'Ewa Beach (2.9 MB)
• Nettie Duarte, a Waikiki resident who remembers the terror of her neighbors (1.4 MB)
• Henry Chu, a shipyard worker who recalls helping to save the USS Raleigh (1.5 MB)

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• Daniel Rita, a Pearl Harbor shipyard worker who tells of seeing the faces of the Japanese pilots (424k).
• Claude Ortiz recalls the first frightening minutes of the Japanese attack (590k).

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• Panorama view from within the USS Arizona Memorial by Cory Lum, Advertiser photographer.

Credits

Project editor	Marsha McFadden	535-2426	mmcfadden@honoluluadvertiser.com
Presentation editor	Lorna W.S. Lim	535-8566	llim@honoluluadvertiser.com
Reporters	Will Hoover	525-8038	whoover@honoluluadvertiser.com
	Mike Gordon	525-8012	mgordon@honoluluadvertiser.com
	Dan Nakaso	525-8085	dnakaso@honoluluadvertiser.com
	Jan TenBruggencate	245-3074	jtenbruggencate@honoluluadvertiser.com
	Lee Cataluna	535-8172	lcataluna@honoluluadvertiser.com
Graphics artists	Stephen Downes	525-8066	sdownes@honoluluadvertiser.com
	Greg Taylor	535-2464	gtaylor@honoluluadvertiser.com
Researcher	Scott Ishikawa	535-2429	sishikawa@honoluluadvertiser.com
Video editing	Scott Morifuji	525-8099	smorifuji@honoluluadvertiser.com
Web conversion	Doug Masuda	535-8557	dmasuda@honoluluadvertiser.com
Photo department	Richard Ambo, Bruce Asato, Deborah Booker, Seth Jones, Cory Lum, Sachi Nakamura, Eugene Tanner, Jeff Widener and Greg Yamamoto.
Copy editors	Linda Dalrymple, Shauna Goya, Ernest Murphy, Jim Richardson, Stanley Yamashita