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Photos of our Pearl Harbour tour

viewing Hawaiian Government buildings on the way to Pearl Harbour

Statue of the famous Hawaiian King Kamehameha

Another view of King Kamehameha

The only palace in the United States

Our Pearl Harbour tour group stopping at the King’s memorial statue

Our tour guide explaining about the historic Hawaiian monarchy

The Punchbowl Cemetery

Pearl Harbour survivors signing the Pearl Harbour memorial book

The massive anchor from the sunken Arizona battleship in Pearl Harbour

Submarine at Pearl Harbour

The Arizona memorial from across the Pearl Harbour bay

USS Oklahoma memorial at Pearl Harbour

Shakespeare’s ‘Band of Brothers’ at the USS Oklahoma memorial

USS Oklahoma memorial

Proceeding towards the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbour

USS Missouri Battleship

USS Missouri at Pearl Harbour

USS Missouri at Pearl Harbour

USS Missouri at Pearl Harbour

The site of the signing on USS Missouri that ended World War II

Looking out from the deck of the USS Missouri

The signatures of those leaders present for the end of WWII

The WWII document on USS Missouri

Photo of the signing ceremony on the USS Missouri

up and down the stairs of the USS Missouri

the giving of last rites to a kamikazi pilot whose bomb did not explode when he crashed into the USS Missouri

Greetings from the ‘innards’ of the USS Missouri

close quarters on the USS Missouri

Leaving the USS Missouri

USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbour

On the USS Arizona memorial

USS Arizona memorial plaque

a closer look at the USS Arizona memorial plaque

Looking at the USS Missouri and USS Arizona sites

Final view of the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbour

My ‘pirate’ look: one of my sunglass lenses popped out leaving USS Arizona

Returning by boat from the USS Arizona site

Greetings from Pearl Harbour

Our Hawaiian Tour Guide at Pearl Harbour

Explaining more about the history of Pearl Harbour

The early radar warning system at Hawaii

My father was an RCAF radar technician during WWII

early radar: my father went on to become an electrical engineer at UBC

From his WWII radar background, my father eventually became the President of Lenkurt Electric

a minature replica of the USS Arizona

A side-view of the USS Arizona minature replica

reflecting on the Pearl Harbour tragedy

A Hawaiian survivor of Pearl Harbour

Doris Miller, the famous African-American sailor who fought back at Pearl Harbour

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