The Library of Congress Shortly before 8 a.m. that Sunday, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor, leaving 21 American naval vessels damaged or sunk, and 347 aircraft damaged or ...

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

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., at the age of 102.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii--Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor's uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party. He went ...

MANY, La. – One of the last surviving sailors involved in the Pearl Harbor attack has died. Jesse Mahaffey died Saturday at the age of 102. His funeral service will be Saturday at Warren Meadows ...

SASEBO, Nagasaki Prefecture--Nearly all members of the Imperial Japanese Navy who participated in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor are now gone, but a wireless telegraphy station said to have ...

You might as well say that America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor.” Japan launched a surprise ... Four US battleships were sunk and nearly 200 aircraft destroyed. President Franklin Roosevelt ...

The remains of a North Carolina sailor who died during the Pearl Harbor attack will return home next month more than 83 years after his death. Petty Officer Neil Frye, a Hoke County native, was lost ...