Among the veterans who appear is Zenji Abe, a Japanese veteran who flew the mission to bomb Pearl Harbor, and retired General Paul Tibbets who flew the mission to bomb Hiroshima.

One month, six pilots came, and Fisk made a significant bond with Zenji Abe. “If you could have gone (to Pearl Harbor) 20-some years ago, you would have seen them (together) on the last Sunday of the ...

MPI/Getty Images Dive bomber Zenji Abe was filled with remorse and shame after he learned the Americans were not warned about the attack, so he created the Japan Friends of Pearl Harbor initiative, ...

And the attitudes began to change," said Kinzler. "There's two sides to this war." Dive bomber pilot Zenji Abe led a group of Japanese veterans to Pearl Harbor in 1991.

Then-U.S. President Donald Trump and then-Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo meet in Trump’s residence at Trump Tower in New York, the United States, Sep. 23, 2018. Credit: Official White House ...

A man in Tokyo read a news report about Fiske’s story. That man was Zenji Abe, who was in command of a squadron of dive bombers in the second attack wave. He dropped his bomb, but missed his target.

Through a letter to her granddaughter, author Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson tells the story of a fifty-year friendship between Sergeant Richard Fiske and Lieutenant Zenji Abe. Period pictures and ...

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There was no applause. Just respectful silence among the several hundred survivors and family members. I believe that for Richard Fiske and Zenji Abe, it was official. The war was over at long last.

His name was Zenji Abe, I would later learn. Just then, Mr. Abe nodded and bowed his head in honor as he slowly walked toward the group. Mr.