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THE FIRST MEMOIR BY A USS* ARIZONA SURVIVOR: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers a "powerful" and "intimate" eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight** At 8:10 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 nineteen-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 extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona— ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery

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Author

Donald Stratton with Ken Gire

Publisher

William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062645357

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

4.48 / 5 (139 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14