The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum's rare Nakajima B5N2 'Kate'-a survivor of the type that once devastated the U.S. Pacific ...

By December 1941, the Japanese had refined their “Type 91, Modification 2″ torpedo to be extremely reliable. But Pearl Harbor’s shallow 45-foot waters posed a problem: when dropped ...

A second torpedo hit the ship ... After Upton’s death, just 15 survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack are alive, the AP reported.

Many assumed Pearl Harbor was too shallow for an aircraft-based torpedo attack. The theory was torpedoes would enter the water too fast, hit the seafloor, and explode. This was despite the British’s ...

When Pearl Harbor came into view, black smoke was already rising from the U.S. ships hit by the first wave of Japan’s surprise attack. The crew of a Nakajima B5N2 torpedo bomber readied for its run.

The battleship Arizona was hit by Japanese torpedo bombers during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Marine 2nd Lt. Robert Taplett was at sea with the Enterprise task force at the time of ...

By that same tally, only 14 veterans who survived the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack are still alive ... he was preparing for an inspection when Japanese torpedo bombers attacked the Oklahoma, he ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it "a date which will live in infamy." But a recent survey of 350 Long Island high school students found little more than half knew the Dec. 7, 1941 ...

the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. Upton told The Associated Press in 2020 that he had been getting ready to shave when he felt the first torpedo hit ...

A few seconds later, a second torpedo hit, causing the ship to list ... where he worked as secretary of Pearl Harbor Survivors Chapter 7 in San Jose, where he facilitated meetings and reported ...