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The US military plans to exhume the remains of 388 Americans killed in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in an unprecedented attempt to identify troops using DNA testing. The effort will focus on sailors and marines from the USS Oklahoma who could never be identified, more than seven decades since the surprise attack…

WWII Veteran Russel Winsett (March 4, 1920 – February 22, 2015) recalls manning an anti-aircraft gun on the USS Pennsylvania on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor as the Japanese aircraft attacked. So you heard the signal for general quarters, you get to your machine gun, had you seen planes in the sky? Did you know what…

He was throwing a football with his friend Dale Downey on that cool December day when the word came across the radio. His dad came outside and said the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Thomas “Bud Currah” and his friend Dale in youthful ignorance quickly replied, “Don’t worry; we’ll take care of it. Dad…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg In the wake of the apparent success of their dazzling Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese set about taking all those “Southern” Resources they had gone to war to obtain. Strategically, they did not think they had to deal with the US Navy, except for its outgunned Far East Flotilla members already…

If you’ve studied World War II at all then you’ve heard about the famous Battle of Midway, one of the turning points of the war in the Pacific. Barely six months after Pearl Harbor, following a nearly uninterrupted string of Japanese victories, the US Navy sank four Japanese Aircraft Carriers and a heavy cruiser for…

The Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Kaga, part of the six-fleet carrier that launched planes that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, has been discovered by RV Petrel on October 18th and just a few hours ago RV Petrel announced the discovery of the Japanese Flagship Akagi. The Akagi was found circa 18 nm from the Kaga….

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – This Veterans Day, moviegoers everywhere can witness the most pivotal Pacific battle in World War II: “Midway.” The production reminds viewers just how precariously America’s future teetered in the early 1940s, and what cost, sacrifice and luck was required to achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific. Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Fresh off their stunning masterpiece of an attack on Pearl Harbor, in early 1942 the Japanese sent their combined aircraft carrier fleet to do the same thing to the British Far East fleet at their ports in Ceylon- modern day Sri Lanka. This was to be combined with assaults to dominate…

Reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi “You buy ‘em, we’ll fly ‘em!” A 1942 WW II poster worth remembering . . . . “THE 5TH FIGHTER COMMAND IN WORLD WAR II, Volume1: Pearl Harbor to the Reduction of Rabaul”, by William Wolf. Schiffer Military History: 448 pages, HC; $69.99 Since the end of World…