Doris Miller was stationed on the USS ‘West Virginia' when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Despite being prohibited from gunnery ...

Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens wailed across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, ...

Coral Sea ended in a tactical victory for the Japanese, seeing the sinking of Lexington, but a strategic win for the ...

Overshadowed by newer aircraft, the P-36 Hawk was nearly written off—until the sky above Pearl Harbor turned to fire. Against all odds, it launched, fought back, and became a symbol of raw American ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Bob Fernandez thought he'd go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941. Four months later he found himself ...

HONOLULU (AP) — 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 ...

Harry Chandler, a Navy corpsman who witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 from a hillside hospital before rushing to take part in a watery rescue mission, died Monday in Palm Beach County, Fla. He ...

The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor is no doubt a day that will live in infamy. Even though Pearl Harbor is something most Americans are taught, there are plenty of surprising facts most people do not ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, the USS Utah was sunk by Japanese torpedoes during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, nearly 84 years later, a ...

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. Drake passed away on April 7 in ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Pearl Harbor survivor Robert “Bob” Fernandez has died. He passed away Wednesday in Lodi, California, at the age of 100. Fernandez was 17 years old when he enlisted in the ...

Bob Fernandez thought he’d go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941. Four months later he found himself shaking from explosions and ...