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Stratton, Donald, 1922- author.
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Stratton, Donald, 1922-
United States. Navy -- Biography.
Arizona (Battleship)
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Personal narratives.
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Hawaii.
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All the gallant men [compact disc] : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor / by Donald Stratton with Ken Gire.
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Stratton, Donald, 1922- author.
[Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio : Harper Audio, p2016.
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Stratton, Donald, 1922-
United States. Navy -- Biography.
Arizona (Battleship)
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Personal narratives.
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Hawaii.
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9781441726186
1441726187
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5 audio discs (6 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan's surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a 19-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor's flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack -- the first memoir by a survivor of the USS Arizona -- 94-year-old Donald Stratton shares his tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates -- approximately half the American fatalities at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors' advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America's Second World War. As the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history.
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