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Photos from an

Elderhostel program at

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

and

Midway Atoll

This program covers the events at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and the decisive battles off Midway Atoll in 1942
which marked The Turning Point in the Pacific.

 

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Nancy Hart and Daniel Martinez
our program leaders

 

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where we stayed in Honolulu

 

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we studied the defenses of Oahu at Fort DeRussy

 

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heard from James Daniels III, a pilot at Pearl Harbor
and the USS Enterprise (1942)

 

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escorted to the Arizona Memorial

 

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by Dick Fiske, USMC
who was on the USS West Virginia on Dec. 7, 1941

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Other Photos of Pearl Harbor Day places

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we traveled to Midway Atoll
(our unofficial greeting)

 

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Our official greeting by James Aliberti, Refuge Ranger
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

 

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where we stayed in a renovated barrackck

 

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we viewed gun emplacements for the defense of Midway

 

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took the landing craft to Eastern Island

 

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saw a gun restored by an Elderhostel service project

 

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viewed the monuments to the naval battle off Midway

 

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and the later one placed at the recent 50th anniversary

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More photos of Midway Military places

Photos of the Birds on Midway Atoll

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