Eyewitness Stories and more than 90 photos of the Attack and Subsequent Events

“I lived inside Pearl Harbor on the day the bombs fell, and through the events that followed. This is my story.”

“Pearl Harbor Child is an accurate, graphic bok with marvelous photographs depicting Hawaii on December 7, 1941 and years after. Thank you, Dorinda for this beautiful, historic book.”

“The core of the book is her on-the-spot accout of the bombing, temporary evacuation, and war years, as she remembers the terror, the tragic mistakces made by friendly fire, and the suffering.”

“. . .you kept us spellbound with your personal recollection of the events related to the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
“The core of the book is her on-the-spot accout of the bombing, temporary evacuation, and war years, as she remembers the terror, the tragic mistakces made by friendly fire, and the suffering.”

Danaiel A. Martinez Pearl Harbor Historian

Other eyewitness survivors tell their stories.

“I’ve been teaching WWII history for 12 years, and this is the first book that has been meaningful to my students.”

School Educator

. . . she tells us about watching our ships burn in the harbor, and digging bullets out of her kitchen wall, and what it was like to carry a gas mask everywhere.”

Capt. Edward L. Beach, USN (Retired)
WWII Navy Submarine Commander