The destroyer served as the air and missile defense commander for the Roosevelt strike group during the deployment, and Dore said the ship’s helicopter detachment did “a massive amount of flight ops,” ...
As a bombardier, he launched a torpedo that hit the battleship Utah where 58 men lost their lives. “I think of the people who died because of me,” he said.
In a surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes and submarines attacked American forces on Hawaii, killing about 2,400 persons. The next day, the United States declared war on Japan. In a ...