Harold E. Ward was a lookout on the cruiser USS San Francisco when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He made four videos, covering two hours of interviews. The videos are divided into 12 segments, each with detailed annotations describing what Ward was talking about.
The USS San Francisco was being overhauled when the planes came in low and slow. "I just stood and watched," said Ward. As a lookout, he was wearing headphones.
An ensign somewhere else in Hawaii asked him to describe the scene. "He says, 'What's going on there?'" Ward recounted: "So I told him we were being attacked by the Japanese air force." The ensign's response: "Don't you get wise with me, Ward. I asked you a question."
"So I began to describe what I was looking at. And there was a dead silence when I finished speaking."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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