The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Finley. Finley joined the Marine Corps around December of 1943. He provides vivid details of his boot camp experiences. He served with Headquarters Company, 4th Marines, as a radar mechanic on Corsairs, repairing radio and radar gear. Beginning in September of 1944 they traveled to Guam, Kwajalein, Pearl Harbor and Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Finley shares a number of anecdotal stories, including working with POWs. He was discharged in the fall of 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Finley. Finley joined the Marine Corps around December of 1943. He provides vivid details of his boot camp experiences. He served with Headquarters Company, 4th Marines, as a radar mechanic on Corsairs, repairing radio and radar gear. Beginning in September of 1944 they traveled to Guam, Kwajalein, Pearl Harbor and Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Finley shares a number of anecdotal stories, including working with POWs. He was discharged in the fall of 1946.

Interview with Forrest Biard, a United States Navy veteran from Bonham, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of World War II while serving as a cryptanalyst. Biard discusses his education, learning Japanese in Japan right before the war hit, codes, Pearl Harbor, and Midway.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Royal Hawaiian entertainers greeting Honorable Edward Johnson in Dallas.

Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Hawaii Blossoms, Ltd requesting ship by December 21st or 22nd.

Interview with Ross Dungan, U.S. Army veteran, concerning his experiences at Fort Weaver with the A Battery, 14th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Elmer Childress, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Reid during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Jubal Hendricks, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard an officers' gig alongside the repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Orland Seeley, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Harry Snelson, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Cummings during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to W. J. Aicklen discussing a shirt that Kempner brought back from Hawaii for Aicklen.

Certificate from The Pacific Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, granting access for two weeks to Mr. Harris Kempner at the request of Leonard W. Crosby.

Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Daniel W. Kempner discussing his trip to New York, rains in Sugar Land, Maclean's concern with a strike in Hawaii and the finalizing of a deal.

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, most likely to her mother, discussing her time on Oahu with friends at different clubs, her friend's photography, meeting a woman from her hometown who was returning from the South Pacific, and shipping some things home. It is written on Burlington Hotel (Washington D.C.) stationary.

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing finances, her ex-husband's house, the Red Cross Canteen at Hickam Field, going to a dance with Air Corps officers, finding a kitten, Red Cross worker living arrangements and schedules, and getting a driver's license. Written on Red Cross stationary.

Interview with Willard Wall, a Army WWII veteran from Austin, Texas. Willard discusses his experiences on Oahu during the attack on Pearl Harbor, including his entry into the Army, assignment to Schofield Barracks, the morning of the attack, and preparations of the island for invasion afterwards.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Interview with Brinton Cate, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in World War II from Jackson, Michigan. Cate describes his time as a corporal with the military police and how he was on Iwo Jima when the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as seeing the aftermath at Nagasaki.

News report about a woman named Sue Reardon coping with the Hawaiian Supreme Court's ruling upholding current state marriage laws.

From Summary: "This report describes the provisions of the reported version of S. 147; outlines some federal statutes and recent cases which might be relevant to the issue of federal recognition of a Hawaiian entity; and recounts some legal arguments that have been presented in the debate on this legislation."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Dr. Laurence H. Snyder took leave from the Univ. of Oklahoma in the spring of 1956, to be a Carnegie visiting lecturer at the Univ. of Hawaii, he had no idea that in three years he would be president of the island's only institution of higher learning."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Doc provides a welcome drawl to Oklahomans visiting the islands."