William Henry Pratt, who survived both the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of dangerous patrols aboard a ...
7:55 a.m.: Japanese warplanes launch a surprise assault on Pearl Harbor, targeting naval ships and airfields at Hickam, Wheeler, Ford Island, Kaneohe, and Ewa Field. The attack lasts two hours and ...
The December 7th anniversary of the Japanese attack on ... the original ship, an armored cruiser, is at Oglebay Plaza. The bell from the battleship that was sunk at Pearl Harbor is at the West ...
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor ... attack, according to a rough estimate compiled by military historian J. Michael Wenger. Bob Fernandez was working as a mess cook on his ship ...
The ship began to capsize ... At 105, he was the oldest survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack and the last remaining crew member of the USS Utah, according to Kathleen Farley, the California ...
31 (UPI) --After 66 years of outdoor display on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol, a 4/50 gun that arguably fired the second American shot of World War II at Pearl Harbor is on the ... the ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on ... oil from exploding ships, so Chandler ...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP ... Schab was a sailor on the USS Dobbin at the time of the attack, the tuba player in the ship's band. He had showered and put on a clean uniform when he heard ...
Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining ... that no one on board knew what made the ship shake. Then, the second torpedo hit ...
Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the ... in oil from exploding ships, so Chandler washed the ...