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Pearl Harbor Artifacts Now at WWII Museum in Natick

2015-12-07 22:01:16| Airlines - Topix.net

The Museum of World War II in Natick acquired artifacts from the attack on Pearl Harbor, including pieces of the shot down planes. Natick's Museum of World War II is exhibiting a number of rare Pearl Harbor artifacts as part of this commemoration.

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Marina s Pearl Harbor survivors: Dwindling ranks, enduring memories

2015-12-07 09:50:31| Real Estate - Topix.net

George Larsen, pictured at his Novato home last year, was a Coast Guard radio operator who saw the Pearl Harbor attack from the Diamond Head Lighthouse. Monday marks the 74th anniversary of Japan's surprise attack on Hawaii that prompted the U.S. to join World War II.

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Survivors gather to remember Pearl Harbor attack

2014-12-07 22:30:14| Airlines - Topix.net

Many of the veterans who survived the Pearl Harbor attack that launched the United States into World War II attended Sunday's 73rd anniversary ceremony with the help of canes, wheelchairs and motorized scooters. Wearing purple orchid lei, about 100 Pearl Harbor and World War II survivors attended the ceremony overlooking a memorial that sits atop sunken battleship USS Arizona.

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In Japan, Pearl Harbor is seen as just another battle

2014-12-06 23:37:25| Airlines - Topix.net

But with the exception of a fireworks display to honor the dead in Nagaoka, Honolulu's sister city, the anniversary of the attack, which took place Tokyo time on Dec. 8, will pass largely unremarked in Japan, even though it marked a sea change in Japan's place in the world. For Japanese, the Pearl Harbor attack wasn't the start of war, but the continuation of a Japanese struggle to remain free of outside influence that had been going on since Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 and ordered the Japanese to open their country to trade with the outside world.

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Fairview Park American Legion Post ceremony remembers Pearl Harbor attack: A Place in the Sun

2014-12-02 11:57:07| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio - "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941-- a date that will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." With those words, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.

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