Call to Duty: Outagamie County in World War II
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Hickam Field

Robert Verbeten worked as a radio man at Hickam Field. The Japanese destroyed the field's airplanes and hangers, but missed Verbeten's radio station. Verbeten believes that the battleship U.S.S. Nevada shot down a Japanese war plane headed for his station.

 


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A fractured US bomber sits at Hickam Field, December 1941
A fractured US bomber sits at Hickam Field,
December 1941
Courtesy of the National Archives; War & Conflict # 1139
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