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Lou Conter, Last Survivor of Pearl Harbor’s USS Arizona, Dies at 102
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoU.S. NEWS Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the USS Arizona, an American warship that was...
MS Coast man was one of America’s first casualties in WWII. How he landed at Pearl Harbor
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOn December 7, 1941, aboard the USS Arizona, Pass Christian’s Cecil Roy Ruddock became one of the...
These are the last remaining US battleships, now serving as floating museums after modern warfare...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe battleship USS Wisconsin fires one of its Mark 7 16-inch guns at an Iraqi shore target during...
How many people died in Pearl Harbor? Here are the casualties of the 1941 attack.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNational Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is one of several U.S. holidays honoring and remembering those...
The remarkable stories behind 5 iconic photos of the Pearl Harbor attack
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA Japanese fighter plane drops what's believed to be the first bomb on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,...
Barberton sailor Buford Dyer: A life cut short at Pearl Harbor 80 years ago
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEighty years ago exactly, Buford Dyer’s day would have started much like any other, with the young...
Visitor numbers show Hawaii's national parks continue to enthrall
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJul. 9—Attendance this year at the state's three major national park sites is on track to surpass 2019 visitor totals, before the COVID-19 pandemic virtually shut down tourism to the islands ...
U.S.S West Virginia artifact coming back to Mercer County in spring 2024
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDec. 7—PRINCETON — A World War II artifact with significance for both the United States and West Virginia is scheduled to return next spring to the Those Who Served War Museum in Mercer County ...
Listen to the words of Hawaii's wartime citizens
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJul. 2—For obvious reasons, the World War II era provokes a lot of memories and nostalgia in Hawaii. Whole bookcases are devoted to it in libraries and archives. For obvious reasons, the World ...
80 years after D-Day, the number of WWII veterans is dwindling
Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJun. 4—ROCHESTER — Names have power. In the case of Jerry Williams of Rochester, his name powerfully has tied him to his uncle, another Jerry Williams who, on June 6, 1944, found himself part ...
