Hawaii

Hickam Field, May 3, 1940 (Image courtesy Hawaii Aviation). Recollections of Hickam Field during the attack on Pearl Harbor by Joseph A. Pesek, Technical Sergeant, United States Army Air Corps, 5th Bomber Group (source): On the morning of December 7, 1941, I got up shortly after 6 A.M. and walked to the NCO club for breakfast which was adjacent to...

Lt. Joseph S. Pesek, 396th Air Service Squadron, 12th Air Service Group. Photo from December 1, 1943, Keesler Air Force Base. Lt. Col. Joseph Pesek, USAF, (Retired) was born on January 14, 1918 in Auburn, NY. On December 5, 1936, he enlisted in the Army 28th Infantry, Fort Ontario. "The people I talked to at the gas station where I...

Remembering at the marker for Walter G. Daniels in Honolulu, Hawaii, Plot C, Grave 140.