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One of the sole remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched World War II disobeyed orders and fought back. Now 100 years old, he continues to share his stories.
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941: October 1, 2011: Historical fiction: I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906: March 1, 2012: Historical fiction: I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001: July 1, 2012: Historical fiction: I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863: February 1, 2013: Historical fiction: I Survived the ...
This is an incomplete list of books about the September 11 attacks. In the first ten years following the September 11 attacks , dozens of books were published about the attacks or about subtopics such as just the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City , and more have been published since.
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.
Pearl Harbor Howard Kenton Potts (April 15, 1921 – April 21, 2023) was an American World War II veteran, who was aboard the USS Arizona BB-39 when it was attacked on December 7, 1941 . Prior to his death, Potts was one of two known surviving members of the Arizona ′ s crew at the time of the attack .
On the morning of December 7, 1941, twenty ships of Destroyer Flotilla One were moored at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked. Theobald, from his temporary flagship, the destroyer tender USS Dobbin (AD-3) , was ordered to provide anti-aircraft fire, and sent Destroyer Division Two out of the harbor to establish an off ...
Donald Stratton (July 14, 1922 – February 15, 2020) was an American veteran and memoirist of World War II who served in the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet. [1] [2] [3] He was in the port gun director of the ship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when an armor-piercing bomb set off the ship's forward ammunition magazine.
The Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor destroyed almost 200 U.S. aircraft, took 2,400 lives, and swayed Americans to support the decision to join World War II.