The US military was a nearly unstoppable force during WWII, but the challenges of weather and natural disasters meant that the power of American bombs and bullets could pale in comparison to the power of nature.

Collin Kelly’s story of bravery during the first bombing missions in the Pacific flourished at a time when nearly all war news was grim.

Civilian workers struggle to keep their cars running amid strict wartime restrictions.

In a strange case of life after death, the resurrected guns of the USS Arizona fired at the end of the war.

Once a bombing range, one Hawaiian island is on the long road back.

The famous attack on December 7 wasn’t the only time Japanese aircraft set out to bomb Pearl Harbor.

The only submarine that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor later became a crowd-drawing oddity, then a museum piece.

The USS Utah (AG-16) had a long and sometimes peculiar career before the veteran warship met its end at Pearl Harbor.

Hawaii was paradise, but military cooks often supplied the old favorites for soldiers and sailors who were stationed far from home.

A single squadron of Mexican flyers completed over nearly 800 sorties—individual aircraft combat missions—in the waning days of World War II.