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Charles Huffaker talks about enlisting in the US Navy as a teenager from Jal, New Mexico, about his basic training in San Diego in 1941, and about serving on the Tennessee, a battleship stationed in Pearl Harbor. He describes attending signal school in San Diego to become a signalman. He discusses the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, manning a gun aboard the Tennessee during the attack, the sinking of battleships around them, and the burning...
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Jim Colman talks about his childhood in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Grand Junction, and Salt Lake City. He describes taking officer’s training courses through correspondence school before receiving a commission as a reserve infantry lieutenant in 1937. He speaks about becoming a communications officer and headquarters company commander with the 57th Infantry in the Philippines in 1941. He describes the horses and mules used by officers in his unit,...
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World War II veterans Charles Huffaker, Melvin Feller and Lawrence Azuma talk about the history of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in a November 1982 panel discussion of the Museums of Western Colorado. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.