Name: The Morning of the Attack
Duration: 131
Description: Pearl Harbor survivors describe the attack's harrowing first moments on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Soldiers recount the harrowing first moments of that fateful morning of December 7, 1941.

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The Morning of the Attack

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Pearl Harbor survivors describe the attack's harrowing first moments on the morning of December 7, 1941.

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