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  • Twigger, William Wounded and Recovery

    William J.

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 1

    Tyler was working in the information center receiving radar reports on the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: 7 December 19

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 2

    Tyler took primary and basic training at Randolph Field then advanced training at Kelley Field [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas].

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 3

    Tyler was 27 or 28 when he went to Hawaii. Hawaii was a pleasant place. There were alerts but Tyler never heard about them.

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 4

    A few minutes after 7:00 [Annotator's Note: 7:00 a.m., 7 December 1941] one of the plotters made some entries on the board.

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 5

    On 1 September 1942 Tyler was transferred to the 44th [Annotator's Note: 44th Fighter Squadron] at Bellows Field as squadron commander.

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 6

    The first board Tyler went before was the Roberts Commission. He also went before army and navy boards. The boards were not hostile to him at all.

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 7

    Tyler flew a number of missions at Guadalcanal and again later in the Philippines.

  • Tyler, Kermit Segment 8

    Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist.

  • Tyler, Vernon France to Germany

    Vernon Leo Tyler [Annotator's Note: in the 100th Infantry Division] had to climb ropes to get on the troopships.

  • Tyler, Vernon Prewar Life to Enlistment

    Vernon Leo Tyler was born in August 1923 in Los Angeles, California.

  • Tyler, Vernon Reflections

    Vernon Leo Tyler occupied Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany] for several months before he came home.

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