Pearl Harbor: What Happened?

Updated at 5:54 p.m. ET: More than 2000 people at Pearl Harbor and many more around the country are marking the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into

My good friend Ajax Lilly was aboard the West Virginia when the ship was bombed by the Japanese in Pearl Harbor on that Sunday in 1941 beginning at 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time. Lilly told the remarkable story of the encounter and I still recall the details

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- More than 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor and many more around the country on Friday marked the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II. The USS

He just can't help himself. On the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Obama commemorated the somber occasion by honoring … President Obama. The White House Twitter account sent out this photo

The attack shocked the nation and exposed just how unprepared and vulnerable the United States was. Today, we commemorate the soldiers and citizens who lost their lives in the attack and their families, who were left