This is the story of one of the few occasions when the PBY Catalina Flying Boats was sent out on a mission as a bomber against Japanese Naval targets in the Pacific, shortly after Pearl Harbor in ...

He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he ...

A day after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, New Orleans-based shipbuilder ... and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental on D-Day. Those landings, still the ...

A year after Pearl Harbor, she was converted from a destroyer ... He walked out on the cover that guards the propeller and stepped onto a rescue boat. “I didn’t even get my feet wet!” ...

Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise ...

William “Bill” Pratt was the last of Fresno’s Pearl Harbor survivors. He was a 19-year-old sailor on the USS Nevada when the ship was attacked Dec. 7, 1941. He was alone and in the dark in ...

A boat sitting in a river in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward ... The Hiei participated in the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack as an escort ship. The following year, in 1942, it was deployed in a battle over Guadalcanal.

6, 2024 3:05 p.m. | Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 3:05 p.m. A Pittsburgh-area family whose distant relative died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was at the reinterment this week of ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Plan for a full day at Pearl Harbor. Even if you don't spend ... a time slot on Recreation.gov in advance for the boat tour. The 45-minute program runs every 15 minutes ...

The National Park Service is engaged in a multiyear preservation project on six battle-scarred mooring quays in Pearl Harbor ...