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December 7, 2005

Pearl Harbor grave
Lem Robson ©Stars and Stripes

Honolulu, Hawaii, November, 1991: At the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific a few days before the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, flowers adorn the grave of an unknown American servicemember who died in the December 7, 1941 battle.
 
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¶ Read stories from Stripes' Pearl Harbor 50th anniversary section, published in 1991:
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     Battleship bugler abandons ship (See story)
     'If my plane was damaged, I would crash it into an American ship' (See story)
     In memory ... (See story)
     Battle plan complexity (See story)
     Get out of the barracks! The Japanese are attacking' (See story)
     Massacre in Manila (See story)
     'The rounds were exploding in our motorpool' (See story)
 



Past photos of the day

December, 2005
December 6, 2005: Children at an orphanage run by Buddhist monks in South Vietnam, 1968
December 5, 2005: Brass band in East Berlin, 1961
December 4, 2005: Louis Armstrong at an officers' club on Taiwan, 1964
December 3, 2005: Comedian George Gobel at the Rhein-Main Airmen's Club, 1964
December 2, 2005: Golfer on a bicycle tows his clubs through Torrejon Air Base, 1988

December 1, 2005: Marines and camel in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1990

November, 2005
November 30, 2005: Prime minister Nehru of India arrives in Tokyo, 1957
November 29, 2005: Led Zeppelin press conference in Tokyo, 1972
November 28, 2005: Randy Johnson, after pitching part of a no-hitter against the Japan All-Stars, 1990
November 27, 2005: Gert Frobe, James Bond movie villain, 1971
November 26, 2005: Fisherman at sunset on a river in Scotland, 1990
November 25, 2005: John McEnroe disputes a call during a match in Tokyo, 1984
November 24, 2005: Ceremony marking the reversion of Okinawa to Japan, 1972
November 23, 2005: South Korean marine with Viet Cong prisoners, 1966
November 22, 2005: President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1961
November 21, 2005: Cleaning day for a tank battalion in South Korea, 1975
November 20, 2005: Gen. Eisenhower's departs after meeting with the troops, 1951
November 19, 2005: Symbol of unity within sight of the Berlin Wall, 1965
November 18, 2005: Prince Charles visits RAF Lakenheath, 1985
November 17, 2005: Helicopter lands during the battle for Hill 484 in Vietnam, 1966
November 16, 2005: Vic Tanny, founder of a chain of health clubs, 1964
November 15, 2005: Astronaut Neil Armstrong visits the troops in Vietnam, 1969
November 14, 2005: German siege gun on its way to the scrap yard, 1949
November 13, 2005: Children caught in a mob as President Johnson visits S. Korea, 1966
November 12, 2005: Tanks in a night firing exercise at Grafenwõhr, Germany, 1976
November 11, 2005: U.S. Marine atop the Rockpile in South Vietnam, 1965
November 10, 2005: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Danny the Red," vaults a police barricade, 1968
November 9, 2005: Italian child sits amid the damage of World War II, 1945
November 8, 2005: Vietnam War ex-POW meets woman who wore bracelet with his name on it, 1973
November 7, 2005: Guarding a Nike-Hercules missile site on Okinawa, 1969
November 6, 2005: Werner Franz, survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, 1987
November 5, 2005: Cows graze near Mont-St.-Michel in France, 1964
November 4, 2005: Mitzi Gaynor at the Cannes Film Festival, 1957
November 3, 2005: Generals Carl Spaatz and Curtis LeMay, 1948
November 2, 2005: Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon in Morocco, 1957
November 1, 2005: Eurythmics, onstage in Frankfurt, Germany, 1986

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