The 2009 Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor calendar.
NOVEMBER
The poster belongs to Norman Rockwell, the one showing the family sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner. The words read "Ours...to fight for. FREEDOM FROM WANT.
THE PICTURE-- Pilots pleased over their victory during the Marshall Islands attack, grin across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the USS Lexington, after shooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes heading for Tarawa. Comdr. Edward Steichen, November 1943.
November 13, 1942-- Sinking of the cruiser USS Juneau and the deaths of the five Sullivan brothers.
November 20, 1943-- Battle for Tarawa begins.
November 23, 1943-- Japanese end resistance on Makin and Tarawa.
Haven't Seen My New Calendar Yet. --Cooter
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