Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise ...

In the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, there was plenty of hope that the United States wouldn’t have the strength to respond. However, the US was a sleeping giant ...

By Amanda Holpuch Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and who was among the last living ...

Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first Japanese prisoner of war has been freed from the stigma and reunited with his fellow sailors who piloted midget submarines in an ill-fated ...

You might as well say that America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor.” Japan launched a surprise strike on the American naval base, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Thousands of ...

That’s what World War 2 veteran Jessie Mahaffey told us in 2022 at his 100th birthday party. Mahaffey was on the U.S.S. Oklahoma, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. As the ship sank, Jessie slid ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Plan for a full day at Pearl Harbor. Even if you don't spend the whole day here, it's a lot to take in and you won't want to rush to another activity or dinner reservation.

On 7 December 1941 a surprise Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor prompted the previously neutral US forces to join World War II. Ira “Ike” Schab, now 103, was aboard the USS Dobbin when the naval ...

In June 1941, Hitler invaded Russia and in December 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the USA into the war. The war became a truly global conflict. Meanwhile, in Europe ...