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**PEARL HARBOR 65^TH^ ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM**

**DECEMBER 2-5, 2006**

**HILTON HAWAIIAN VILLAGE**

**Prepared by Daniel A. Martinez, Historian 11/19/06 Revised**

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| # Abe, Zenji       | Mr. Abe was a dive bomber pilot from the        |
|                    | aircraft carrier *Akagi.* He made his attack on |
|                    | Pearl Harbor as part of the 2^nd^ wave that     |
|                    | arrived over Oahu at 9:00 am. He is one of the  |
|                    | few pilots from Japan to survive the war. He    |
|                    | recently authored his memoirs on the attack on  |
|                    | Pearl Harbor in a book titled ***The Emperor's  |
|                    | Sea Eagle***. Mr. Abe has dedicated his life to |
|                    | reconciliation and peace between American and   |
|                    | Japanese veterans.                              |
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| **Arroyo, Ernie**  | Mr. Arroyo is the president of the Pearl Harbor |
|                    | History Associates. Over the last thirty years, |
|                    | he has made a personal commitment to the study  |
|                    | of Pearl Harbor and its related documents. Mr.  |
|                    | Arroyo recently published one of the most       |
|                    | complete photo essays on the Pearl Harbor       |
|                    | attack in a book titled ***Pearl Harbor*.**     |
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| **Borch, Col. Fred | Frederic L. Borch III is the Regimental         |
| (Ret.)**           | Historian and Archivist for the U.S. Army Judge |
|                    | Advocate General's Corps. He was charged with   |
|                    | the investigation into the Kimmel and Short     |
|                    | inquiry by Under Secretary of Defense Dorn. He  |
|                    | co-authored a definitive work on the            |
|                    | Kimmel/Short controversy: ***Kimmel, Short and  |
|                    | Pearl** **Harbor: The Final Report Revealed,    |
|                    | ***which was published by the Naval Institute   |
|                    | Press in 2005.                                  |
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| **Burbank,         | Jennifer Burbank is a National Park Service     |
| Jennifer**         | Interpretive Ranger at the USS *Arizona*        |
|                    | Memorial. She began her Park Service career in  |
|                    | 1997 at Redwood National and State Parks.       |
|                    | Currently, Jennifer is the Park Dive Officer    |
|                    | with the USS *Arizona* Underwater Cultural      |
|                    | Resource Team.                                  |
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| **Burlingame,      | Mr. Burlingame is a writer for the Honolulu     |
| Burl**             | Star-Bulletin. Over the years he has been       |
|                    | engaged in the writing of aviation history. He  |
|                    | also has been interested in Japanese midget     |
|                    | submarines and published a monumental work on   |
|                    | that subject titled ***Advance Force Pearl      |
|                    | Harbor.***                                      |
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| **Busby, Anna**    | In 1939, Anna Busby joined the US Army Nurse    |
|                    | Corps. On December 7^th^, she had just finished |
|                    | breakfast when she heard a terrible noise.      |
|                    | Running outside, she saw black smoke spiraling  |
|                    | into the sky. She got word that the Japanese    |
|                    | were bombing Pearl Harbor. Anna put on her      |
|                    | uniform and reported for duty at Tripler        |
|                    | General Hospital. On this 65^th^ anniversary,   |
|                    | she is 94 years young.                          |
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| **Butowsky, Dr.    | Historian for the National Park Service in      |
| Harry**            | Washington, DC.,                                |
|                    |                                                 |
|                    | Dr. Butowsky headed up the program for National |
|                    | Historic Landmarks and he was instrumental in   |
|                    | conferring an NHL designation to the Opana      |
|                    | Radar Site. Harry teaches at George Mason       |
|                    | University and is an author of numerous         |
|                    | publications including ***An American Family in |
|                    | World War II.***                                |
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| **Cale, Sterling** | Mr. Cale was a Pharmacist's Mate stationed at   |
|                    | the Naval Hospital at Pearl Harbor. He had just |
|                    | gotten off duty at the receiving station when   |
|                    | the attack began. He witnessed the entire       |
|                    | attack and participated in the rescue of        |
|                    | sailors along Battleship Row. After the attack, |
|                    | Sterling was in charge of the burial detail,    |
|                    | removing bodies from the USS *Arizona*. He      |
|                    | continued to serve his country until 2005 when  |
|                    | he retired after 57 years of government         |
|                    | service.                                        |
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| **Dr. Stanley D.M. | Dr. Carpenter is a Professor of Strategy and    |
| Carpenter**        | Policy and Official Historian of the U.S. Naval |
|                    | War College. He is an internationally renowned  |
|                    | expert on Britain in the Age of Fighting Sail   |
|                    | and the British Civil Wars. Dr. Carpenter has   |
|                    | appeared frequently on the History Channel      |
|                    | providing commentary on such things as the      |
|                    | Battle of Britain and WWII.                     |
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| **Chun, Edward**   | Mr. Chun was an 18-yeard old navy worker at the |
|                    | Pearl Harbor shipyard. His job was as a pipe    |
|                    | fitter. At the time of the attack, he was along |
|                    | the 1010 Dock near the USS *Helena* and         |
|                    | *Oglala*. This former St. Louis High School     |
|                    | graduate was an eyewitness to the opening       |
|                    | moments to the Japanese torpedo attack on       |
|                    | Battleship Row.                                 |
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| **Cressman,        | Mr. Cressman is a historian with the Ships      |
| Robert**           | Histories Branch of the Naval Historical Center |
|                    | in Washington D.C. Mr. Cressman is considered   |
|                    | one of the preeminent experts in WWII naval     |
|                    | history and his outstanding publication, Steady |
|                    | Nerves and Stout Hearts, is a definitive study  |
|                    | of what occurred to the air groups of the USS   |
|                    | *Enterprise* on December 7, 1941.               |
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| **DiVirgilio,      | Mr. DiVirgilio is a noted expert on the         |
| John**             | Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor. He has  |
|                    | interviewed a number of Japanese aviators and   |
|                    | visited Japan several times to conduct his      |
|                    | investigation. He also is an illustrator of     |
|                    | note and has done studies of the damage done to |
|                    | battleships during the attack.                  |
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| **Evans, Jack**    | He was a sailor from the USS *California*. The  |
|                    | night before the attack he danced in the        |
|                    | jitterbug contest and won it with a 10-year-old |
|                    | girl. The next day he was aboard ship on the    |
|                    | main top of the *California*. From that vantage |
|                    | point he was an eyewitness to the panorama of   |
|                    | the attack and the destruction of Battleship    |
|                    | Row.                                            |
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| **Fake, Tom**      | Mr. Fake is a career employee of the National   |
|                    | Park Service as a planner and landscape         |
|                    | architect. Tom has been selected as the         |
|                    | Superintendent Project Manager for the upcoming |
|                    | development of the new visitor center and new   |
|                    | museum.                                         |
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| **Fargo, Thomas,** | Admiral Fargo graduated from the United States  |
|                    | Naval Academy in June 1970. He assumed duties   |
| **Admiral USN      | as Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, at Camp     |
| (Ret.)**           | H.M. Smith, Hawaii on May 2002. After his       |
|                    | retirement in 2005, he accepted the position of |
|                    | President of Trex Enterprises Corp. and is on   |
|                    | the board of trustees at Hawaii Pacific         |
|                    | University. He is also Vice Chairman of the     |
|                    | Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund Board of Directors.  |
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| **Goldstein, Dr.   | Dr. Goldstein is the preeminent authority on    |
| Donald**           | the Pearl Harbor attack and he is the           |
|                    | instrumental force and author of Gordon         |
|                    | Prange's numerous works on Pearl Harbor. Dr.    |
|                    | Goldstein is a professor of history at the      |
|                    | University of Pittsburgh. His monumental        |
|                    | contribution was producing ***At Dawn We        |
|                    | Slept**.*                                       |
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| **Hart, John Dr.** | Dr. John Hart is the Assistant Dean and         |
|                    | Professor of Communication at Hawaii Pacific    |
|                    | University's College of Communication. Dr.      |
|                    | Hart's students have worked in educational      |
|                    | partnership with the National Parks Service and |
|                    | the USS *Arizona* Memorial Museum Association   |
|                    | in developing projects such as the redesign of  |
|                    | the Memorial admission tickets.                 |
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| **Hess, Don**      | Mr. Hess is President and Chief Operating       |
|                    | Officer the USS *Missouri* Memorial             |
|                    | Association. Don has been heavily involved in   |
|                    | the preservation and exhibition of this famous  |
|                    | battleship. As a retired captain from the       |
|                    | United States Navy, Don Hess has distinguished  |
|                    | himself as career officer and an executive for  |
|                    | the USS *Missouri*.                             |
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| **Holfwolt, Gerald | Mr. Holfwolt is President of the Pacific Fleet  |
| L.**               | Submarine Memorial Association which operates   |
|                    | the USS *Bowfin* Submarine Museum and Park.     |
| **Captain, USN     | Jerry graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and |
| (Ret.)**           | is a retired 30-year career officer who         |
|                    | commanded nuclear submarines during the Cold    |
|                    | War. He has an ongoing commitment to the        |
|                    | preservation of the USS *Bowfin* and expansion  |
|                    | of its educational outreach to the public.      |
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| **Hyland,          | Mr. Hyland was a sailor aboard the flagship USS |
| Everett**          | *Pennsylvania*. As a radioman, he served in the |
|                    | ship's communications. On that day he went to   |
|                    | his battle station and was a loader on one of   |
|                    | the three-inch anti-aircraft guns. He was later |
|                    | grievously wounded and nearly lost his life.    |
|                    | After months of hospitalization, Everett was    |
|                    | returned to service. After the war, Mr. Hyland  |
|                    | became a school teacher and is currently one of |
|                    | the Pearl Harbor survivor volunteers at the USS |
|                    | *Arizona* Memorial.                             |
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| # Jackson, Timothy | Director of the College of Distance Education,  |
|                    | Mr. Jackson is a Professor of Strategy and      |
| **Naval War        | Policy at the U.S. Naval War College. He        |
| College**          | oversees all aspects of the professional        |
|                    | education of over 3,500 Officers of the Navy,   |
|                    | Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard   |
|                    | and senior Department of Defense civilians each |
|                    | year. A career Navy officer, Tim's scholarship  |
|                    | and publications focus on all aspects of WWII,  |
|                    | particularly on WWII in the Pacific Theater.    |
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| **Kelley, Chris**  | Chris Kelley is the chief biologist for the     |
|                    | Hawaii Undersea Research Lab (HURL) and         |
|                    | researcher for the University of Hawaii         |
|                    | Department of Zoology, Hawaii Institute of      |
|                    | Marine Biology (HIMB). Chris was a key player   |
|                    | in the discovery of the Japanese midget         |
|                    | submarine sunk by the USS *Ward* on the morning |
|                    | of December 7, 1941.                            |
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| # Leavelle, Jim    | Mr. Leavelle was a young gunner's mate aboard   |
|                    | the USS *Whitney* during the attack on Pearl    |
|                    | Harbor. He served throughout the Pacific War    |
|                    | and saw numerous actions. After the war, he     |
|                    | became a detective for the Dallas police        |
|                    | department. In 1963, he was one of the first to |
|                    | interrogate Lee Harvey Oswald after President   |
|                    | Kennedy's assassination. Mr. Leavelle was       |
|                    | handcuffed to Oswald when he was shot by Jack   |
|                    | Ruby. The photograph that captured the murder   |
|                    | won the Pulitzer Prize.                         |
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| **Lundstrom,       | Mr. Lundstrom is the former curator of American |
| John**             | and military history at the Milwaukee Public    |
|                    | Museum. He served from 1967 to 2005 in that     |
|                    | capacity. John is considered by many as one of  |
|                    | the finest author and historian concerning      |
|                    | naval aviation and strategy in the Pacific War. |
|                    | His book, ***The First Team***, was a wonderful |
|                    | addition to the understanding of the early      |
|                    | actions in the Pacific War. His current book is |
|                    | a biography of Admiral Jack Fletcher titled     |
|                    | Black ***Shoe Carrier Admiral***.               |
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| **Maeda, Takeshi** | Mr. Maeda was a warrant officer and aviator     |
|                    | from the carrier *Kaga*. He saw action at Pearl |
|                    | Harbor as a crewmember aboard a torpedo plane   |
|                    | that attacked Battleship Row. Later, at the     |
|                    | Battle of Midway, he was wounded aboard his     |
|                    | carrier by bomb fragments that struck near his  |
|                    | ship.                                           |
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| **Martinez,        | He is currently the historian for the National  |
| Daniel**           | Park Service at the USS *Arizona* Memorial. Mr. |
|                    | Martinez specializes in Pearl Harbor attack     |
|                    | history and photos related to that event. He    |
|                    | has written a number of articles regarding that |
|                    | experience.                                     |
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| **McDonald,        | George is the on of Private Joseph P. McDonald, |
| George**           | the soldier who received the warning from the   |
|                    | Opana Radar While running the communications at |
|                    | the Shafter Information Center. His interest in |
|                    | Pearl Harbor began 50 years ago when his father |
|                    | provided input to Walter Lord's writing of Day  |
|                    | of Infamy. George is a member of the Sons and   |
|                    | Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors and the     |
|                    | Pearl Harbor History Associates. He worked for  |
|                    | 4 years to have his father recognized by the    |
|                    | Army. Posthumously, U.S. Senator Chris Dodd and |
|                    | U.S. Congressman John Larson presented Joseph   |
|                    | McDonald with the Army Commendation Medal in    |
|                    | 2005.                                           |
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| **Nicholson,       | She was a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the  |
| Dorinda**          | Pearl Harbor attack from her home in Pearl      |
|                    | City. She would later write about that          |
|                    | experience in her book ***Pearl Harbor          |
|                    | Child.***                                       |
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| **Palmer, Allan**  | Mr. Palmer is the Executive Director and Chief  |
|                    | Executive Officer of the new Pacific Aviation   |
|                    | Museum Pearl Harbor. The new museum will have   |
|                    | its grand opening on                            |
|                    |                                                 |
|                    | December 7, 2006.                               |
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| **Parshall,        | Jonathan Parshall is a noted naval historian    |
| Jonathan**         | and researcher. He was a consultant on the 1999 |
|                    | mission to the Midway battle site by Nauticos   |
|                    | Corporation. Mr. Parshall is widely published   |
|                    | on naval history in journals and magazines. He  |
|                    | has appeared on Discovery Channel and is a      |
|                    | historical advisor to the BBC. He maintains an  |
|                    | award-winning website on the Japanese Imperial  |
|                    | Navy                                            |
|                    | ([www.comb                                      |
|                    | inedfleet.com](http://www.combinedfleet.com/)). |
|                    | His book, *Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of |
|                    | the Battle* *of Midway* is considered by        |
|                    | critics to be one of the finest accounts of the |
|                    | Japanese side of that dramatic naval battle.    |
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| **Preul, Don**     | Don Preul has been a professional model builder |
|                    | for the last 25 years. He is considered by his  |
|                    | peers to be the finest craftsman of naval       |
|                    | ships. Mr. Preul's work may be viewed at many   |
|                    | of the major naval museums in the country. One  |
|                    | of the best examples of his craftsmanship is of |
|                    | the model of the Japanese carrier *Akagi* which |
|                    | is on display at the USS *Arizona* Memorial     |
|                    | Visitor Center. This year, Mr. Preul completed  |
|                    | a new model of the USS *Arizona*, which will be |
|                    | unveiled during the 65^th^ Anniversary          |
|                    | commemoration.                                  |
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| **Rodby, Joan**    | Joan Rodby was a young girl living in the       |
|                    | shadow of Diamond Crater. She witnessed the     |
|                    | attack on Pearl Harbor from her home and        |
|                    | wondered why her parents were so concerned. She |
|                    | spent the war years growing up quickly and      |
|                    | learning to use a gas mask and respond to air   |
|                    | raid drills.                                    |
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| **Seiden, Allen**  | A writer, photographer and Hawaiian archivist   |
|                    | and historian, Allen Seiden has lived in Hawaii |
|                    | since 1974. He is a recipient two Ka'ahili      |
|                    | awards for projects of cultural relevance from  |
|                    | the State of Hawaii. His work has appeared in   |
|                    | newspapers, magazines and books around the      |
|                    | world. In 2001, Mr. Seiden authored *From       |
|                    | Fishponds: Pearl Harbor, a Complete Illustrated |
|                    | History.*                                       |
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| **Sekigawa, Brad** | Mr. Sekigawa is considered one of the finest    |
|                    | model builders in the state of Hawaii. He has   |
|                    | provided model exhibits for the USS *Arizona*   |
|                    | Memorial and other museum in the Hawaiian       |
|                    | community. His current contribution is the      |
|                    | aircraft used in the first wave attack that are |
|                    | currently part of the permanent exhibit of the  |
|                    | aircraft carrier *Akagi* located at the USS     |
|                    | *Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center.              |
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| **Smith, Douglas** | Dr. Douglas V. Smith is a Professor of Strategy |
|                    | and Head of the Strategy and Policy Division at |
| **Naval War        | the U.S. Naval War College. He is a graduate of |
| College**          | the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate      |
|                    | School, and the Naval War College and holds a   |
|                    | doctorate in military history from Florida      |
|                    | State. Doug specializes in the naval history of |
|                    | WWII and in particular, the five carrier        |
|                    | battles of the Pacific war.                     |
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| **Soucy, Lee**     | Mr. Soucy was a Pharmacists Mate 2^nd^ Class    |
|                    | aboard the                                      |
|                    |                                                 |
|                    | USS *Utah*. That vessel, formerly a battleship, |
|                    | was now an auxiliary with a hull number AG-16.  |
|                    | Mr. Soucy would tend the wounded from the USS   |
|                    | *Utah* and other vessels at an aide station set |
|                    | up at the new BOQ at Ford Island. Lee would     |
|                    | serve with distinction in the US Navy           |
|                    | throughout the Pacific War.                     |
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| **Spain, William** | Associate Dean of Academics, William R. "Bill"  |
|                    | Spain, Col. USMC (Ret.) was previously the head |
| **Naval War        | of the Joint Military Operations Department at  |
| College**          | the U.S. Naval War College where he developed   |
|                    | the course to include detailed study of         |
|                    | campaigns of WWII. An expert on amphibious      |
|                    | warfare, WWII and especially WWII in the        |
|                    | Pacific, Dean Spain is one of America's leading |
|                    | authorities on the Battle of Leyte.             |
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| **Stackpole III,   | Lt. General Stackpole retired from the Marine   |
| H.C. "Hank", Lt.   | Corps in September 1994. His last active duty   |
| General USMC       | station was as the Commander of Marine Forces   |
| (Ret.)**           | Pacific/Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force  |
|                    | Pacific, headquartered at Camp H.M. Smith,      |
|                    | Hawaii. His distinguished military career       |
|                    | spanned more than 30 years and his numerous     |
|                    | awards and decorations include the Silver Star  |
|                    | Medal.                                          |
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| **Stillwell,       | Author and contributor to **Naval History       |
| Paul**             | Magazine**. Considered to be one of the finest  |
|                    | naval historians, he authored ***Battleship     |
|                    | Arizona*** and his current work, ***The USS*    |
|                    | *Missouri.***                                   |
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| **Stratton, Don**  | Mr. Stratton is a survivor from the battleship  |
|                    | USS *Arizona*. The circumstances of how Don     |
|                    | survived the cataclysmic explosion are          |
|                    | miraculous. He is but one of a handful of men   |
|                    | who were shielded from the blast in a gun       |
|                    | director located on the port side of the ship.  |
|                    | He served his country throughout WWII in the    |
|                    | Pacific and became a hard-hat diver after the   |
|                    | war. He is the first Pearl Harbor survivor to   |
|                    | have an action figure modeled after him.        |
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| **Thompson, Pat**  | This ten-year-old girl found herself attending  |
|                    | the Battle of Music on the night before the     |
|                    | Pearl Harbor attack. She loved to dance and     |
|                    | that night participated in the jitterbug        |
|                    | contest with a sailor named Jack Evans from the |
|                    | USS *Tennessee*. Just prior to the 60^th^       |
|                    | anniversary, Pat began the search to locate her |
|                    | former dance partner and found that he was      |
|                    | living just a few miles from her home in San    |
|                    | Diego. They were reunited at the anniversary    |
|                    | and danced together once again.                 |
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| **Tyler, Kermit**  | Kermit Tyler had a long and distinguished       |
|                    | career in aviation for the US Army and retired  |
|                    | as a Lt. Col. At the time of the Pearl Harbor   |
|                    | attack, then Lt. Kermit Tyler was assigned to   |
|                    | the information center at Fort. Shafter. It was |
|                    | on his watch that the radar station at Opana    |
|                    | notified him of unidentified planes coming in   |
|                    | from the north towards Oahu.                    |
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| **Wenger, Mike**   | Mr. Wenger is considered by many as a scholar   |
|                    | of the photographic history of World War II.    |
|                    | His first publication of note was ***Pearl      |
|                    | Harbor: The Way It Was*.** He has gone on to    |
|                    | publish books on D-Day and the dropping of the  |
|                    | atomic bombs on Japan.                          |
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| **White, Dr.       | Dr. White has been teaching at the East-West    |
| Geoffrey**         | Center in Manoa for over 10 years. He has       |
|                    | written a number of articles and conducted      |
|                    | studies at the USS *Arizona* Memorial. He has   |
|                    | been a consultant to the National Park Service  |
|                    | on issues concerning visitation of both         |
|                    | American and Japanese visitors. Geoff has also  |
|                    | authored a publication on the Pacific Islander  |
|                    | experience in World War II.                     |
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| **Yoshida, Jiro**  | Jiro Yoshida was a naval aviator who was        |
|                    | trained towards the end of the Pacific War. He  |
|                    | saw service in the defense of Japan. After the  |
|                    | war, he had a successful business career and    |
|                    | helped formulate the Japanese Naval Aviators    |
|                    | Veterans Society.                               |
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| **Young, Donald    | Donald Young is a military historian, author    |
| J.**               | and lecturer, with a particular interest and    |
|                    | background in the early days of World War II on |
|                    | the West Coast and in the Pacific. He is the    |
|                    | original founder and director of Fort MacArthur |
|                    | Military Museum in San Pedro, California.       |
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