WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD - World War II veteran Thomas Petso offers remarks during the Wheeler Field Remembrance, in Hangar 206, Dec. 5, 2016. Petso was an intelligence platoon sergeant with the 24th Infantry Division, and playing football aboard Wheeler Field when it was attacked in 1941. The ceremony commemorated the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Wheeler Field, Dec. 7, 1941. Wheeler Field was among several sites to be attacked by the Japanese in addition to Pearl Harbor. More than 30 were killed and more than 50 were wounded in the attacks.

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