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.
Nancy Hart
and Daniel Martinez
our program leaders
where we stayed in Honolulu
we studied the defenses of Oahu at Fort DeRussy
heard from
James Daniels III, a pilot at Pearl Harbor
and the USS Enterprise (1942)
escorted to the Arizona Memorial
by Dick
Fiske, USMC
who was on the USS West Virginia on Dec. 7, 1941
Other Photos of Pearl Harbor Day places
we
traveled to Midway Atoll
(our unofficial greeting)
Our
official greeting by James Aliberti, Refuge Ranger
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
where we stayed in a renovated barrackck
we viewed gun emplacements for the defense of Midway
took the landing craft to Eastern Island
saw a gun restored by an Elderhostel service project
viewed the monuments to the naval battle off Midway
and the later one placed at the recent 50th anniversary
More photos of Midway Military places
Photos of the Birds on Midway Atoll
