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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.
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA), founded in 1958 and recognized by the United States Congress in 1985, was a World War II veterans organization whose members were on Pearl Harbor or three miles or less offshore during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The PHSA was officially disbanded at the end of December ...
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.
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 ...
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.