The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who at 106 was believed to be the oldest surviving veteran of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii, died Monday in Lexington, Ky. Drake was a 23-year-old Army engineer ...

Edward D. Bowden was killed when Japanese torpedoes and bombs hit the USS California in the 1941 attack, according to the ...

The A Company of the Winnipeg Grenadiers was surrounded. They had managed to claim the summit of Mount Butler in the center of Hong Kong and hold the invading Japanese for three hours. But a gap in ...

"Just in time for 75th anniversary commemorations of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this latest addition offers a complete visual history of the attack, its aftermath, and the salvage efforts ...