Shortly before ... carrier Akagi. As escorts, they were high above and to the left of 26 Aichi D3A1 dive bombers from Shokaku headed for Ford Island's naval air station, in the midst of Pearl ...

On 6 June Japanese submarine I-168 put two more torpedoes into her and she finally went down. Enterprise, CV-6 (1934-1936-1938) was flagship of the Halsey Task Force at the time of Pearl Harbor, ...

Japanese carrier planes killed 2,403 Americans ... For nearly a decade before Pearl Harbor, Vinson had schemed and politicked in brilliant fashion to ensure that America was building a two ...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent away from their homes and businesses and locked up in incarceration camps. When they returned home in 1945, they often found ...

Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor ... Before the new monument was installed, the bay had hosted one dedicated to the nine sailors who died in the attack. The Imperial Japanese Navy ...

This is one of the most viewed aspects of any tour of Pearl Harbor memorials. What the Japanese Navy did not know is that the US Aircraft Carriers were not present in Pearl Harbor at the time of ...

hundreds of Japanese warplanes, launched from aircraft carriers far out at sea, attacked the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack took a terrible toll: eight ...

Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of an executive order that led to the involuntary detention of thousands of Japanese-Americans ...

Before Pearl Harbor’s defenses could be roused ... Harbor lived to see the end of the war. Four of the six Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the attack were sunk or permanently disabled ...

In July 1941, the Imperial Japanese ... carriers, including the Soryu and Akagi, battleships, cruisers and destroyers comprised the mobile task force assigned to carry out the assault on Pearl Harbor.