Four months later, he was a cook aboard the USS Curtiss docked at Pearl Harbor the morning of the cataclysmic Japanese surprise attack on Dec. 7. “I just thought I was gonna go dancing all the ...
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (WLS) -- One person is dead after a freight train and a car collided in Northwest Indiana on Monday afternoon, CSX Transportation confirmed. CSX said the collision happened in ...
He remembers the swarm of fighter planes over Pearl Harbor as he hoisted the American flag at Navy mobile hospital 2 on a hill overlooking Battleship Row. He remembers being hustled with other ...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab, a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, was so determined to stand and salute during a remembrance ceremony honoring those killed in the ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Robert Fernandez was 17 when his U.S. Navy ship was attacked by Japanese forces at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 ...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab, a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, spent six weeks in physical therapy to build the strength to stand and salute during a remembrance ...
Democrats and Republicans came together on Saturday to honor surviving veterans and those who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor more than 80 years ago. “Today, we honor the brave ...
Four months later, he found himself shaking from explosions and passing ammunition to artillery crews so his ship's guns could return fire on Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor, a Navy base in ...
Governors across the U.S. have ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to mark National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day on Saturday. This year, the day marks the 83rd anniversary of the surprise ...
As bombs fell on Pearl Harbor during a shocking attack, transforming serene Hawaiian waters into a graveyard of twisted metal, burning wreckage and the roar of destruction, Earl “Chuck” Kohler ...