Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...

“December 7th 1941 was a watershed in the lives of nearly everyone in Hawaii,” wrote Wilfred J. “Jasper” Holmes in his memoir, “Double-Edged Secrets.” “Monday dawned on a different ...

It’s hard to deny the importance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in modern history. After all, if the calm hadn’t been violated on that perfect blue Sunday morning in paradise, it’s hard to ...

Rescuers could hear tapping sounds coming from the battleship’s hull from trapped sailors who survived the attack, but “they were sitting on tons of live sunken ammunition and no technology ...

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

The pilot received the same funeral that the ship would have given one of its own sailors. Eighty years later, the Missouri is a museum moored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, not far from the submerged ...

He studied the history of Japan’s aggression of his own volition, visiting battle sites in Okinawa and the Pearl Harbor ... maru Memorial Museum in Naha, dedicated to a ship that was evacuating ...

SANFORD, NC (WOWK) — The remains of a World War II sailor who was killed at Pearl Harbor while serving on the USS West Virginia ... I learned so much about the ship on which he served,” McMillian told ...