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75 years after attack, Pearl Harbor still resonates with area residents
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World War II veteran Henry T. “Jeep” Woodliff meets other veterans following a recent Gainesville Rotary Club meeting that honored 13 local WWII veterans. Woodliff was in the U.S. Army, stationed on the Hawaiian island of Oahu Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Henry T. “Jeep” Woodliff didn’t know it yet, but history was about to be made — and very near his Army base. Early the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes soared over his head as he stood on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. “They didn’t fire at us and we didn’t fire at them,” said Woodliff, who turned 101 on Sept. 11 and lives in Hall County.