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By the end of the action, he had downed five of the attacking Japanese planes and damaged a sixth, approaching close enough to the aircraft carrier Lexington that some of its gunners had fired on him.
Flags are being lowered in Hawaiʻi in observance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The day and week after the attack, George T. Morton was assigned to go to nearby airfields and pick up bodies and body parts.
“When they bombed Pearl Harbor, I went down and enlisted the next day,” said Michael Visconti, 97, among the World War II veterans to be honored at a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the attack on Sunday at AmVets Post 2 in Edgewater.