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In 2016, Fernandez was interviewed by the History Channel for the television show Pearl Harbor: The Last Word. [4] He had travelled to Hawaii three times to remember the attack, and had planned to visit in 2024 to commemorate the "83rd anniversary of the bombing", but was unable to due to a decline in his health. [5]
The initial announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor was made by the White House Press Secretary, Stephen Early, at 2:22 p.m. Eastern time (8:52 a.m. Hawaiian time): "The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor from the air and all naval and military activities on the island of Oahu, principal American base in the Hawaiian islands."
Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
Sailors walk amongst the wreckage of the American destroyers USS Cassin and USS Downes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The battleship USS Pennsylvania is ...
US ship dispositions at time of Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson. Battleship Division 1 Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd † 1 Pennsylvania class (12 × 14-inch main battery) Arizona (BB-39) (sunk) (Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh †) 2 Nevada class (10 × 14-inch main battery) Nevada (BB-36) (Captain Francis W. Scanland)
In 1994, U.S. Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Memorial events at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial remind the country of those who died that day and of the ...
Attack on Pearl Harbor, known as Operation Z in planning Operation Z (1944) , Japanese World War II plan for the defense of the Marianas Islands 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , using Z as a military symbol , and thus sometimes referred to as "Operation Z"
Over 80 years later, Dec. 7, 1941 is a date that still lives in infamy. The attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II and left an indelible scar on the American psyche ...