Researching Your Pearl Harbor Veteran
The discovery of a Pearl Harbor veteran in the family tree leads to discovery of service and sacrifice.
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.
The Madlyn and Paul Hilliard Research Library includes a range of resources related to Pearl Harbor.
How Japan was imagined in Germany and in Hitler’s racial worldview needs to be defined precisely.
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.
“The location of the (US) Fleet in Hawaiian waters would act as a deterrent to the Japanese only so long as its positioning did not appear to the Japanese as solely a bluff.” – Admiral J.O. Richardson
The final installment of the story of the Hesse Heist covers the trials of Nash, Durant, and Watson.
The USS Utah (AG-16) had a long and sometimes peculiar career before the veteran warship met its end at Pearl Harbor.
Siblings Lydia Grant and Thomas Gillette witnessed firsthand the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.