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

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 ...

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

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." ...

Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, died March 1 in Alexandria, La. He was 102.

By Amanda Holpuch Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and who was among the last living ...

In its fifth month of prospecting, the Pearl Harbor Committee at last unearthed a rich find—a broad, deep vein of comment and discussion of the 1941 tragedy by ex-War Secretary Henry L.

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 ...

MANY, La. (KPLC) - A World War 2 veteran who survived Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima will be remembered this Saturday in Sabine Parish. “I never thought I would make it this far, but if I make it a little ...