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Pearl Harbor Navy salvage diver dies at 103
Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 103. Read more
Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 103. Read more
Dec. 7, 1941, wasn’t the end of Japanese attacks in and around Hawaii. Read more
Here is the text of the addresses of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama at Pearl Harbor today. Read more
Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan are coming together at Pearl Harbor for a historic pilgrimage to the site where a devastating surprise attack sent America marching into World War II. Read more
Submarines are known as the Navy’s “Silent Service,” but their contributions to World War II were honored by loud clanging Saturday during a moving tolling of a bell at Bowfin Park. Read more
A group of Hawaii musicians and a Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant provided special inflight entertainment to a Pearl Harbor survivor flying home from a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attack. Read more
Despite being hit by a Japanese torpedo, the USS Nevada was the only battleship to get underway on Dec. 7, 1941, and try to make a run for open sea. Read more
Mess attendant Doris “Dorie” Miller was making the rounds collecting laundry from shipmates aboard the USS West Virginia on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Read more
James “Jim” Leavelle, 96, has a history of being at the wrong place at the wrong time but living to tell the tale. Read more
The news media widely reported this week that Shinzo Abe will be the first Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor when he goes later this month — but he won’t be. In 1951, then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida made a brief visit during a stopover in Hawaii on the way home from San Francisco, where he had signed a peace treaty with the Allied powers and other nations. Read more
Ten Army Air Corps veterans who survived the Japanese attack on Hickam Field and Wheeler Field 75 years ago were honored at Hickam Wednesday while a much largerceremony took place next door at Pearl Harbor. Read more
The faithful turned out in droves Wednesday to remember Pearl Harbor and the men who valiantly tried to defend it on Dec. 7, 1941, three-quarters of a century ago. Read more
John Anderson and his twin brother Delbert “Jake” Anderson were both sailors aboard the USS Arizona when the mighty battleship succumbed to heavy fire on Dec. 7, 1941. Read more
U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris says those who served during the attack on Pearl Harbor never failed to stand for the national anthem. Read more
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence separately paid tribute to the fallen, wounded and veterans of Dec. 7, 1941. Read more
Ten Army Air Corps veterans who survived the Japanese attack on Hickam Field and Wheeler Army Airfield 75 years ago today were honored at Hickam while a much larger ceremony took place next door at Pearl Harbor. Read more
This morning at Pearl Harbor, the nation remembers the date that lives in infamy 75 years later. Read more
President Barack Obama today remembered those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago, while thanking the veterans and survivors from that day of infamy. Read more
The concrete warmup ramp for warplanes is cracked now, and kiawe encroaches on its edges. But for aging survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese aerial attack on Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, the old airfield’s heart still thrums. Read more
It was Hisao Uyeno’s first trip to Honolulu, a different world from the rustic sugar cane camp he lived in with his family in Piihonua near Hilo in 1941. Read more
