Audio Archive

The following audio files are taken from oral history video interviews with Pearl Harbor Survivors. Here they talk about what they saw and experienced on December 7, 1941.

 

• Clarendon Hetrick

  
  

  Pearl Harbor Survivor Clarendon Hetrick talks about his experience on the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941. Mr. Hetrick passed away on April 18, 2016, at the age of 92.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Date created:

  12/06/1985

  Audio Transcript

  Transcript due 10/31/2024

 

• Sterling Cale

  
  

  Pearl Harbor Survivor Sterling Cale talks about his experience as a Pharmacist's Mate Third Class at the Naval Shipyard Pearl Harbor, and what he saw on December 7, 1941.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Date created:

  09/28/2004

  Audio Transcript

  Transcript due 10/31/2024

 

• CM2c Walter Staff

  
  

  Pearl Harbor Survivor CM2c Walter Staff was the last person rescued from the overturned USS Oklahoma. Here he talks about what it was like being trapped inside, and how he finally escaped.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Date created:

  12/04/1986

  Audio Transcript

  Transcript due 10/31/2024

 

• SM2c Chip Chiappari

  
  

  SM2c Chip Chiappari was aboard the USS Antares and spotted the Japanese midget submarine near the entrance to Pearl Harbor.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Audio Transcript

  Transcript due 10/31/2024

 

• S2c George Smith

  
  

  S2c George Smith talks about his experience in the brig (military prison) of the USS Oklahoma, just before the Pearl Harbor attack.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Audio Transcript

  Transcript due 10/31/2024

 

• S2c George Smith

  
  

  S2c George Smith talks about his experience on the morning of December 7, 1941, just after the start of the Pearl Harbor attack.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Audio Transcript

  Transcript due 10/31/2024