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As the Marines and Army Wildcats waited offshore, the Tennessee-class battleship unleashed a relentless bombardment on Peleliu and Angaur, its twelve 14-inch guns systematically tearing through ...
In 'Behind the Lines', narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the Center for American War Letters are brought to life by ...
While Pearl Harbor offers dramatic flair and emotional ... For instance, Admiral Kimmels reaction to the attack is ...
The putdown of New Dealers reflected the anti-war group’s birth as a reaction to President Franklin ... years later wrote “The Truth About Pearl Harbor,” claiming FDR knew the Japanese ...
Fernandez, now 100, was 17 when he joined the Navy just months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A Japanese warplane crashed into Fernandez’s ship, the USS Curtiss. It’s believed there are ...
HONOLULU — 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 ...
A veteran believed to be the world’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. Vaughn P. Drake Jr. from Kentucky was 23 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on the US ...
The Navy serviceman, killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was identified decades ... be put to rest,” Svoboda said of her mother’s reaction. “He was smart, caring, the peacekeeper ...
On Dec. 7, 1941, just before 8 a.m., Japan launched an air and sea attack on Naval Station Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in Hawaii that pushed the United States into World War II. The U.S ...
Drake Jr.'s son said. Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106, according to his family.
Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103. Chandler died Monday at a ...
Languages: English and Farsi Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who survived Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 103. Chandler passed away on Monday at a senior living center in ...