Warren “Red” Upton, a 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously described it ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II and left an indelible scar on the American psyche matched only by the attacks of Sept. 11. A recorded 2,403 service members and ...
Here's a cool artifact from the intersection of United States history and Major League Baseball history, courtesy of presidential historian Michael Beschloss on Twitter (where else these days?
To see FDR’s original speech with editing changes click title or go to: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy for lessons on Pearl Harbor and primary documents. In response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor ...
Lindbergh said war was unlikely. When he was proved wrong, he argued that deploying U.S. forces to Europe wouldn’t make a difference.
Roosevelt spoke to a joint session of Congress, calling Dec. 7 “a day that will live in infamy.” In 1994, U.S. Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Memorial ...
Tuesday is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ... President Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of war on Japan on December 8 may have braced many Americans for the fight ...
Upton was the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, a battleship moored at Pearl Harbor when Japanese planes began bombing Hawaii. In a famous speech, then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor, in which Japanese planes rained ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt aptly captured its significance, calling it a day “that will live in infamy.” ...