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Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Pennsylvania

May 10, 2018 ·  
Unlike the others seven US Navy battleships present at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) wasn't lined up on Battleship Row along the southeast coast of Ford Island, and therefore avoided the major damage those ships sustained in the Japanese attack. USS Pennsylvania Before Pearl Harbor Following her […]
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Descent into Darkness: The Divers of Pearl Harbor

May 09, 2018 ·  
To get a true sense of the amount of damage done when Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, it’s best to rely on the recollections of those who lived through it. They may have been caught up in the chaos of the events as they unfolded, but many of their accounts are […]
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Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Avocet

May 03, 2018 ·  
On September 17, 1918, the USS Avocet was commissioned as a Lapwing-class minesweeper with the hull designation (AM-19). For seven years, she maintained this designation, sailing under the command of Lieutenant Christian Crone. In that seven-year span, Avocet took part in multiple tests and exercises, but never saw any combat. It wasn’t until years after […]
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Pearl Harbor Survivor Elmer Luckett Dies at 97

May 03, 2018 ·  
“We noticed a lot of black smoke coming off of Ford Island, and just about that time, the Japanese started attacking Battleship Row,” Elmer Luckett recalled during a 2017 interview with radio station KMOX in St. Louis, MO. Realizing that Pearl Harbor was under attack was a memory he would never forget. Serving aboard the […]
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Childhood Memories of Pearl Harbor

May 02, 2018 · Jason Alghussein
Their combined age at the time was barely old enough to enlist. Still, Pat Campbell and Jimmy Lee had front row seats for one of the most devastating events in American history. Here are some of their memories of Pearl Harbor and the attack that changed the course of history. The best way to remember […]
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Ships of Pearl Harbor: USS Bagley

April 30, 2018 ·  
To have a US Navy ship named in one's honor is a great achievement. One American naval officer had four. Ensign Worth Bagley was killed during the Spanish-American War, in 1898, and the third ship named for him, the destroyer USS Bagley (DD-386), was present at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. Ensign […]
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Pearl Harbor Hero Chief Boatswain Edwin Hill

April 12, 2018 ·  
On the morning of December 7, 1941, an aerial striking force of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, in the US Territory of Hawaii. In the chaos and horror that ensued, there were men who were able to keep their wits and help those around them, putting their own lives […]
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Pearl Harbor Attack

July 18, 2011 · Randy Miller
When was the Pearl Harbor Attack? The Pearl Harbor attack was the morning of December 7th, 1941. Who Attacked Pearl Harbor? Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Empire of Japan. Why was Pearl Harbor Attacked? The why of the attack is a bit more complicated. A short answer is that the Japanese felt that as […]
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