HONOLULU—Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102. Mr. Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, California, following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said, adding she was beside him along […]
HONOLULU—Richard C. “Dick” Higgins, one of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, a family member said Wednesday. He was 102. Mr. Higgins died at home in Bend, Oregon, on Tuesday of natural causes, granddaughter Angela Norton said. Mr. Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol squadron of […]
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party. He went topside to see the USS Utah capsizing and Japanese planes in the air. He scurried back below deck to grab boxes […]
Pearl Harbor survivor Ira “Ike” Schab looked back on his experiences during the Japanese bombing attacks—which prompted the United States to enter World War II—in video footage shot on Nov. 20, 2023. The 82nd anniversary of the surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet was marked on Dec. 7. From his Beaverton, Oregon home, the […]
NEW ORLEANS—Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Wednesday to greet the oldest living survivor of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor as he marked his upcoming 105th birthday. “It feels great,” Joseph Eskenazi of Redondo Beach, California, told reporters after posing for pictures with his […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is raising awareness about suicides among border agents. They promise to address the issue in a new bill. The vaccine mandate for military members is on the verge of being repealed. The White House is disapproving, while a few senators are pushing for more. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s win in the […]
San Franciscans protested the authorization of use-of-force through robots. They cited concerns about militarizing the police and treatment of other citizens. Despite a large budget surplus, forecasters are saying the state is heading for a deficit in the coming years. That comes with increasing unemployment and a slowing economy. Police in Los Angeles made a […]
The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma was struck by multiple torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. The interment comes more than 80 years after the attack that drew the United States into World War II and nearly […]
CHICAGO—A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II. Members of Herbert “Bert” Jacobson’s family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the […]
The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating fuel leakage from a giant government fuel storage take—one that’s hidden inside a mountain ridge, overlooking Pearl Harbor. Military medical teams have examined more than 5,900 people complaining of symptoms, including nausea, headaches, and rashes.
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with a somber visit to the World War II Memorial in the nation’s capital. The Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and other locations in Hawaii killed 2,403 service members and civilians and […]
President Joe Biden is again urging the Senate to pass his Build Back Better bill. He promotes the bill as a way to lower prescription drug prices—and lists three things the bill would do to make it happen: “First, we are going to cap cost sharing of insulin at $35 per month.” Second, Biden says […]
The United States marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor. Tesla boss Elon Musk weighs in on President Joe Biden’s social spending bill, and Biden is expected to help deter a potential attack on Ukraine during his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
HONOLULU—When Japanese bombs began falling on Pearl Harbor, U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class David Russell first sought refuge below deck on the USS Oklahoma. But a split-second decision on that December morning 80 years ago changed his mind, and likely saved his life. “They started closing that hatch. And I decided to get out of […]
On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. In less than two hours, 2400 Americans are dead and the nation is never the same. We’re joined by Craig Shirley, historian and author of “December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World,” to talk about how that fateful day […]
Dec. 7, 1941, is a date that forever changed the United States. Seventy-nine years since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy commemorated the event marked the anniversary at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. “Today we honor the sacrifice of the service members and civilians who fought […]
In this episode, we sit down with Sharyl Attkisson, five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and managing editor of Full Measure, to talk about her new book, “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.” Then, we discuss how Pearl Harbor changed America with Craig Shirley, historian and author of “December […]
