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NSA 2006 Hall of Honor Inductee

Bernard Ardisana was born on October 27, 1924, in Tampa, Florida. After graduating high school in 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, serving as a radio engineer during World War II. Following three years of service, he returned to civilian life and pursued higher education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1949.

On October 25, 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy suffered one of its most symbolic losses of the Pacific War. That day, the aircraft carrier Zuikaku, the final surviving Japanese carrier that had taken part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, was sent to the bottom of the sea by U.S. Navy aircraft during the Battle of Cape Engaño, a major phase of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

On October 23, 1983, tragedy struck in Beirut, Lebanon, when two truck bombs detonated within minutes of each other, targeting buildings that housed United States Marines and French paratroopers deployed as part of the multinational peacekeeping force.