Fallen Champions: USS Arizona’s Marine Detachment
Battleship Missouri Memorial curator’s family connection to the USS Arizona’s Marine Detachment.
Battleship Missouri Memorial curator’s family connection to the USS Arizona’s Marine Detachment.
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.