On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to ...

One of the deadliest attacks on our nation’s military came in 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Military survivors of the ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP ... when a navy Zero pilot smashed into the USS St. Lo in the Philippine Sea while carrying a pair of 550-pound (250-kilogram) bombs. Britain’s Imperial War Museum ...

After training in Newport, R.I., he served aboard the USS St. Louis, which came to be known as “Lucky Lou” for escaping the attack on Pearl Harbor. Johnson played a crucial role in the first ...

On the quiet morning of December 7, 1941, the light cruiser USS St. Louis lay anchored at Pearl Harbor, her crew expecting a routine weekend leave. With her boilers cold and guns silent ...

when Japanese fighters bombed Pearl Harbor. His parents, sister and two brothers were buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, but his body remained, unidentified, in Hawaii ...

Here, 24/7 Wall St. is exploring the recipients ... At the height of the bombing in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Chief Boatswain Hill led his men of the USS Nevada to the quays, then cast off ...

The USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania class battleship, sank in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7 ... James and Jeff. Louis Anthony Conter. Retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander.

He was 18 years old, serving as a radioman aboard the USS Pyro, an ammunition ship docked at Pearl Harbor on the morning ... 7191 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville, with a Memorial Service to follow ...

ST. LOUIS — Raymond Hoffstetter ... California to Hawaii aboard the USS Missouri a year later for the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In 2007, Hoffstetter was inducted ...

Long before he became the last survivor of the battleship USS Arizona, Lou Conter was a hunter. After surviving the infamous Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that killed 1,177 of his ...