A Very Busy Day: USS Monaghan (DD-354) at Pearl Harbor
In the middle of a surprise aerial attack the USS Monaghan (DD-354) scores the second submarine kill of the war.
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.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was decades in the making, but still came as a shock.
Japanese Americans faced different circumstances in Hawaii following the Pearl Harbor attack than those of their counterparts on the mainland, but still experienced discrimination.
As an adult, Janine Simone Hopkins was encouraged by her family to record her experiences and reflections of her life in Paris during the German occupation.
Historian Richard B. Frank discusses three major mistakes which denied the fleet at Pearl Harbor time to prepare for the incoming Japanese attack.