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,” ...
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 ...
At one point, he flicked on a device that picked up a radio station from Hawaii. He listened for a few seconds. “We were right on track,” he recalled. They saw Pearl Harbor just before 8 a.m ...
Washington, DC - Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby traveled to Hawaii to meet Sailors and leaders contributing to the Navy's warfighting ...