Teachers

Need help teaching your students about the Pearl Harbor attack and World War II history? Our Teacher’s Resource Guides contain a host of activities and processes designed to help you extend the learning possibilities for your students.

Librarians

“Dorinda Nicholson is a primary source to a major historical event.”

Students

Doing an assignment on WWII? Dorinda’s eyewitness story will help you because it includes actual experiences by both military and civilian participants. Read more here or ask your teacher to invite Dorinda to speak.

Veterans

Dorinda’s story is a notable example of how war can effect the life of a child, but she also tells what happened to veterans, especially Sgt. Richard Fiske, whose story became her second book, “Pearl Harbor Warriors.”

Pearl Harbor Child

Who else is a civilian eyewitness to the Pearl Harbor attack?

(Dorinda lived inside the harbor on the Pearl City Peninsula

only a few hundred yards from the battleship USS Utah)

Hello and aloha, my name is Dorinda . . .

Historians call me “a primary source as a Pearl Harbor eyewitness,” because on December 7, 1941, I was six years old, living on the Pearl City Peninsula when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. With my family, I watched the attack from my front yard, only a few hundred yards from the battleship USS Utah, one of the first American ships sunk by Japanese torpedoes. My book cover below shows me at age 6 in Pearl Harbor with my dog, “Hula Girl”. . . and this is my story. Please come in . . . I’ve got a lot to show you!