Capt. Isoroku Yamamoto, left, with U.S. Navy Secretary Curtis D. Wilbur. Photographed at the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., circa 1925-28, while Capt. Yamamoto was serving as Japanese Naval ...
In 1921, Army Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell proved airplanes could sink battleships. Three years later, he predicted Japan would launch a surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor at dawn. Navy and Army brass ...
At 106 years old, Vaughn Drake Jr. was the oldest known survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor until his death on April 7, according to his obituary. Born Nov. 6, 1918, in Winchester, Kentucky, Drake ...
But I used to be a pack rat, saving compulsively--letters, drafts, interview transcripts, the ephemera of a life lived on paper. If I still lived that way, I might be able to reach into a box and pull ...
World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.Video above: Schab reflects on Pearl Harbor ...
The story of a Navy Corpsman who was caught up in the worst of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Harry Chandler arrived at Pearl Harbor in September 1941, serving as a United States Navy Corpsman. He ...