Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Much sooner than one would have expected, telegrams from the War Department arrived at a handful ...

On December 7, 1941, aboard the USS Arizona, Pass Christian’s Cecil Roy Ruddock became one of the first Americans to make the ultimate sacrifice in World War II. Cecil was born on August 24, 1919, in ...

We have witnessed this morning the attack of Pearl harbor and a severed bombing of Pearl Harbor by army planes, undoubtedly Japanese,” said an NBC reporter in an article run ...

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. – The flag-draped casket of U.S. Navy Fireman 1st class Walter F. Schleiter of Massillon was delivered by a team of service-dressed sailors as family members and saluting veterans ...

His family learned of his death on Dec. 16, 1941. Within three weeks North End leaders arranged to have Mussolini Street renamed in his honor. The intersection of Yeoman Avenue, Morgan and Beverly ...

On December 7, 1941, the United States was thrust into World War II when the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Known forever as “The Day of Infamy,” the attack damaged ...

Seventy-seven years after he was killed, sailor Durell Wade will finally get a proper burial. For his Baton Rouge nephew, it ends a lifetime of wondering. “I knew that I had his name, and I knew that ...

Butte residents woke up Christmas Eve 1941 to a story in the newspaper that one of their own had perished at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. Seaman 2nd Class Lowell Bruce Jackson, 26, died when his ship, the ...

MARK LEVIN (HOST): There was no debate after we were attacked on Pearl Harbor about how many enemy casualties there would be. No debate whatsoever. How many enemy casualties would there be in Japan?

When the USS Arizona exploded and sank during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago, brothers died with brothers, childhood friends with childhood friends, a father with his son. Some of ...