Veteran's History Project - James E. Minshall

James E. Minshall

Sergeant, U.S. Army

Co C, 6th Ranger Battalion

World War II

Editor's Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

When the air and sea forces of the Imperial Japanese attacked the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, much of the American culture changed.

Our country had already been committed to stopping the Nazi advance in Europe. The military-industrial complex was not a well-oiled machine, but...