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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. After two hours of bombing, 21 U.S. ships were sunk or damaged, 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, and 2,403 people were killed.
A Gallup poll just before the attack on Pearl Harbor found that 52% of Americans expected war with Japan, 27% did not, and 21% had no opinion. [60] While American Pacific bases and facilities had been placed on alert on many occasions, officials doubted Pearl Harbor would be the first target; instead, they expected the Philippines to be ...
Some 5,500 Issei men arrested by the FBI immediately after Pearl Harbor were already in Justice Department or Army custody, [1] and 5,000 were able to "voluntarily" relocate outside the exclusion zone; [2] the remaining Japanese Americans were "evacuated" from their homes and placed in isolated concentration camps over the spring of 1942. Two ...
Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Upton was surrounded by his "loving family" when he died on Wednesday, Dec. 25 following a "short ...
Pearl Harbor survivor Bob Fernandez, 100, says good night to friends after a night of dancing and singing at Whirlows in Stockton on Nov. 21. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
The West Loch Disaster was a maritime accident during World War II at Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii. The incident, which occurred just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, 21 May 1944, began following an explosion in a staging area for Landing Ships, Tank (LSTs) and other amphibious assault ships in West Loch.
Frances Griffin never got the chance to meet her uncle, who was among thousands killed at Pearl Harbor, when Japan launched its Dec. 7, 1941, attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii.. All the 81 ...
Every year, Deb Conti’s grandmother would pull out a wrinkled letter and photograph, the last remnants of her brother who died at the Pearl Harbor attack over 80 years ago.