On December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was quietly working on his stamp collection when Navy Secretary Frank Knox called to report Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Though his ...

In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced removal of people of Japanese descent from Oregon, California, Washington and Arizona in response t ...

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and ...

On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base on the island of Oahu. Over 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,000 more were injured. Meanwhile, almost 20 American ...

Nurse Alice Beck Darrow, a former longtime Lake County resident, met the Navy sailor who would become her husband when he ...

U.S. President Donald Trump once said the Japanese came through the Panama Canal to attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941. We found no evidence of Trump making the above statement. Had Trump actually ...

Warren “Red” Upton, a 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to his family and the Sons and ...