The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began at 7:48 a.m. on December 7, 1941. The attack killed some 2,400 Americans and wounded many others, while sinking four battleships. Photographs show ...

Explore Hawaiʻi’s World War II history through memorials, museums and historic sites, as Honolulu earns national recognition ...

The USS Arizona is the famous battleship was destroyed during the Attack on Pearl Harbor - Dec 7, 1941. It was commissioned ...

PEARL HARBOR NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Hawaii — Only two veterans who survived the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor attended the annual commemoration Saturday in Hawaii. Ken Stevens, ...

Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first Japanese prisoner of war has been freed from the stigma and reunited ...

Every year on Dec. 7, we pause to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor. But here’s the thing: it’s more than a history lesson. For anyone wearing the uniform today, Pearl Harbor isn’t just about ...

Robert Fernandez was a 17-year-old boy with a sense of wanderlust when he enlisted in the Navy in August 1941. Four months later he was working as a cook aboard the USS Curtiss docked at Pearl Harbor, ...

A Mercer County, West Virginia U.S. Navy sailor whose remains were not identified until 84 years after his death aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl ...

The USS Arizona burns and sinks at Pearl Harbor. Over 900 of the 1,117 men who died aboard the Arizona are still entombed within the remains of the ship. Bath's Lydia Gillete was scheduled to tour the ...

Veteran Fred Boyer's body will be laid to rest with his parents 85 years after his death. Boyer died on USS West Virginia in Pearl Harbor.

Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, ...