Musgrave, standing, and Hunter remember Dec. 7, 1941
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Dean, Gordon
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated December 7, 1961 partially reads, "It was Dec. 7, 1941--20 years ago. Sunday morning, 7:55 a.m., at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu....Suddenly: 'This plane came over and dropped a bomb on the Arizona--right down the smokestack,' said Musgrave. 'I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know it was the Japs.' 'I heard this noise,' said Hunter. 'I was half asleep, I though [sic] it was just a few PBY's flying like they did every Sunday morning. Then, all at once, I heard the bombs fall. 'My God, Pop, get out of bed.' It was my wife, Eleanor, 'Get out of bed. The Japs are coming.'" At left, Cecil P. Musgrave, an employee at the San Fernando Veterans Hospital, and seated in wheelchair, Floyd Valentine Hunter, a patient.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Veterans Administration Hospital (San Fernando, Calif.) Veterans Administration Hospital (San Fernando, Calif.)--Employees Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Anniversaries, etc Hospitals--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles) Hospitals--California--Los Angeles--Employees Hospital patients--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Wheelchairs--California--Los Angeles Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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