President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had decided in secret to retaliate for Pearl Harbor with a surprise attack on Tokyo. For months, U.S. Army Air Force bomber pilots ...
Pearl Harbor; Viet Nam, the Tonkin Gulf incident; Iraq, weapons of mass destruction; Afghanistan, retaliation for 911 even though of the nineteen terrorists who hijacked the planes none were from ...
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began at 7:48 a.m. on December 7, 1941. The attack killed some 2,400 Americans and wounded many others, while sinking four battleships. Photographs ...
Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103. Chandler died Monday at a ...