Pearl Harbor Day

Key participants​

Lockard was promoted to Staff Sergeant and awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, he then attended Officer Candidate School was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Upon completion of further radar training, he served as a radar officer on Adak and Amchitka Islands for the remainder of the war. After the war he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, Litton Industries, GTE, Sylvania Electric and AMP Inc. where he registered over 35 patents. He died on 2 November 2012, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Dauphin County.[13]

McDonald served in the central Pacific theater including assignments on Kanton, Makin, Kwajalein, Guadalcanal, New Guinea and Saipan. After the war he worked at Pratt & Whitney for 20 years. He died on 7 August 1994.[14] On 29 November 2005 he was posthumously awarded the Army Commendation Medal for his efforts to notify his superiors of the impending Japanese attack. U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, US. Rep. John Larsen, East Hartford Mayor Melody Currey and Major General Thaddeus J. Martin attended the ceremony. McDonald's son George accepted the award on his family's behalf.[15]

Tyler continued to serve in the military, eventually retiring as a United States Air Force Lieutenant colonel in 1961. He died on 27 February 2010.[16]