Christmas came early Saturday (Dec. 21) for about 150 kids in Texarkana at We Are Washington’s annual Christmas party. More than 50 kids were able to make their Christmas list a reality with a $150 ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab, a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, was so determined to stand and salute during a remembrance ceremony honoring those killed in the ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Robert Fernandez was 17 when his U.S. Navy ship was attacked by Japanese forces at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 ...

Four months later, he found himself shaking from explosions and passing ammunition to artillery crews so his ship's guns could return fire on Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor, a Navy base in ...

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, Earl “Chuck” Kohler ...

The ceremony honored the 2,403 soldiers and civilians who died during the attack at Pearl Harbor, as well as 17 local World War II veterans.

December 7, 1941, began as a perfect Sunday morning for the troops serving the US fleet at Pearl Harbor. Under a early morning South Pacific sun, softball teams were lining up on the beach.

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States was a neutral country in World War II. As the global powers clashed, president Roosevelt was in negotiations with Japan over ...

Pearl Harbor "changed the future of the world," U.S. President Joe Biden said at a White House event for veterans and their families on Friday, the eve of the anniversary of Japan's surprise ...

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 ...

War is often caused by a failure of imagination. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — whose 83rd anniversary we’ll observe on Saturday — most Americans believed the United States was ...