Around
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked various targets in and around Pearl Harbor.
Schofield
Barracks
(still an active Army post)
Wheeler
Army Airfield
(many fighter planes destroyed on the field along this hanger line)
Old
Officer's Club at Wheeler Airfield
(pilots were drinking coffee here at time of attack)
Water
tower at Hickam airfield
(The field with its bomber planes largely destroyed during the attack. The
Japanese thought his water tower to be a church.)
Memorial over the sunken USS Arizona
Wall of Names of those killed in the attack.
Dick
Fiske, USMC, USS West Virginia
(A survivor, sharing his memory book with visitors to the memorial)
The USS
Missouri has been docked next to the memorial
to commemorate the end of the war which started at Pearl Harbor.
main guns of the battleshipip
located
nearby is the USS Bowfin
(a survivor of successful missions in the Sea of Japan)
navigation control room
aft torpedo room
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