As bombs fell on Pearl Harbor during a shocking attack, transforming serene Hawaiian waters into a graveyard of twisted metal, burning wreckage and the roar of destruction, Earl “Chuck” Kohler did not ...

The USS Arizona burns and sinks at Pearl Harbor. Over 900 of the 1,117 men who died aboard the Arizona are still entombed within the remains of the ship. Bath's Lydia Gillete was scheduled to tour the ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it "a date which will live in infamy." But a recent survey of 350 Long Island high school students found little more than half knew the Dec. 7, 1941, ...

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive — all ...

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Aerial photograph from 2500 feet altitude, looking southward, showing the U.S. Fleet moored in the harbor on May 3, 1940. (Naval History and Heritage Command) Early one morning in fall 1941 Takeo ...

The story of a Navy Corpsman who was caught up in the worst of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Harry Chandler arrived at Pearl Harbor in September 1941, serving as a United States Navy Corpsman. He ...

More than 80 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a devastating surprise attack against U.S. air and naval forces at Pearl Harbor. Many Americans today believe the attack was totally ...

HONOLULU — Alongside Pearl Harbor on Sunday, former Navy nurse Alice Darrow peered out to the watery spot where, amid the lethal chaos of the surprise attack 84 years earlier, a machine gun bullet ...

Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (U.S. Navy ...

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