Conditions have gotten so dire that low-lying areas in Honolulu, Waikiki and Pearl Harbor could be inundated in the coming ...

President Franklin Roosevelt secretly signed an executive order in early April 1942 that allowed American aviators to join Claire Chennault’s volunteers.

The history of Jews in the Hawaiian Islands, when they arrived, what happened during World War II, and what their lives are ...

Voice of America went on the air eight weeks after Pearl Harbor. “We bring you voices from America,” journalist William Harlan Hale said in German on Feb. 1, 1942, in ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before ... Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway” by John ...

Gwathmey said his role in NPR's programming department "felt like being the desk sergeant in a police precinct." ...

Aerial view of boats and yachts moored at a harbor at Waikiki on a clear, blue sky day with high-rise hotels and apartments in background. The popular vacation and holiday destination in Oahu, Hawaii.

Neil Frye was a 20-year-old mess attendant from Vass, N.C., aboard the USS West Virginia when a Japanese torpedo sank it in ...

He had joined up at 19, signing on as a mess attendant in a segregated branch of the Navy, serving aboard the USS West Virginia, which carried him all the way to Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese ...

Freeman K. Johnson enlisted in the Navy as a teenager and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked in 1941. In 1945, he watched from the USS Iowa in Tokyo Bay as the Japanese formally ...