Recovered and Identified on the USS Oklahoma
AMM2c Durell Wade made the ultimate sacrifice manning his battlestation on USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
AMM2c Durell Wade made the ultimate sacrifice manning his battlestation on USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In a strange case of life after death, the resurrected guns of the USS Arizona fired at the end of the war.
As USS Arizona burned on December 7, 1941, Lt. Commander Fuqua displayed true courage under fire.
Once a bombing range, one Hawaiian island is on the long road back.
Takeshi Maeda, a Japanese Imperial Naval pilot, guided his bomber to Pearl Harbor and released a torpedo that helped sink the USS West Virginia. Years later, he became a leading figure in reconciliation efforts between Japan and the United States.
Daily routine put Paul G. Williams in the most protected part of USS West Virginia in the opening moments of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The discovery of a Pearl Harbor veteran in the family tree leads to discovery of service and sacrifice.
The famous attack on December 7 wasn’t the only time Japanese aircraft set out to bomb Pearl Harbor.
In the middle of a surprise aerial attack the USS Monaghan (DD-354) scores the second submarine kill of the war.
The only submarine that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor later became a crowd-drawing oddity, then a museum piece.