Orange County Sheriff recognizes Pearl Harbor On the morning of December 7, 2023, the county held a earl Harbor Remembrance ceremony in Montgomery to honor that fateful... News 07 Dec 2023 | 04:23
Just before 8 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service conducted a surprise military strike on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. Of the eight U.S. Navy battleships present, all were damaged, with four sunk. All but USS Arizona were later raised and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship and one minelayer. A total of 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. “A day which will live in infamy” as President FDR would called the attack, led to this country’s formal entry into World War II the next day. Pearl Harbor. Eighty years on Letters to the Editor 07 Dec 2021 | 09:22
Herb Weatherwallks (1917 – 2016) visits with Alex Cohen, age 10, in 2010 at the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii. ( Photos courtesy of Kristin Brooks Cohen) 'Remember Pearl Harbor!' Dec. 7, 1941 With the passing of the generation that lived at the time of World War II, little notice is made today of the date of infamy... Local News 03 Dec 2019 | 06:49
