It marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines who perished aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Built in 1962, the memorial is visited by more than two million people every year. The sunken remains of the vessel were declared a National ...
Cohen, Rebecca
The film’s title refers to the number of stars—representing states—displayed on the American flag during World War II. Each interviewee is framed with or near a particular 48-starred flag that inspired the project. Schmidt rescued it from a junk store. On a visit to Pearl Harbor’s war...
In Morgan’s case, however, the experience was that of living in the large complex erected near Pearl Harbor to house the hundreds of civilian workers brought to Oahu after the declaration of war. Lynn and her husband Mack have come from Kentucky on a ship full of troops and civilian wor...
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View footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the strike that provoked the U.S. into entering World War IILearn about the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, by watching historical footage and viewing the USSArizonaNational Memorial there.(more) ...
View footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the strike that provoked the U.S. into entering World War IILearn about the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, by watching historical footage and viewing the USS Arizona National Memorial there.(more)...
A damaged B-17C Flying Fortress bomber sits on the tarmac near Hangar Number 5 at Hickam Field, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In a flooded dry dock, the destroyer Cassin lies partly submerged and leaning against another destroyer, the Downes. The battleship Pennsylvania, ...
In September of 1994, the Iraq disarmament crisis—which would be used as leverage for the 2003 invasion of Iraq—manifested as Iraq threatening to no longer cooperate with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and sending troops near the Iraq-Kuwait border. In return, the U.S. sent...
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Hitler issues "Night and Fog" decree, policy under which underground agents and other opponents are made to vanish into the "night and fog." December 8. The United States and Britain declare war on Japan. Chelmno extermination camp opens near Lodz, Poland. By ...