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    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    File - In this July 27, 2015 file photo, military pallbearers escort the exhumed remains of unidentified crew members of the USS Oklahoma killed in the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor that were disinterred from a gravesite at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. The military says it has identified 100 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor 76 years ago. The milestone comes two years after the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency dug up nearly 400 sets of remains from a Hawaii to identify the men who have been classified as missing since the war. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)
    December 01, 2017 - 4:00 pm

    Military identifies 100 killed on battleship in Pearl Harbor

    HONOLULU (AP) — The military has identified 100 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago, officials said Friday. The milestone comes two years after the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency dug up nearly 400 sets of remains from...
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    CAPTION ADDITION LOCATION: U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump offer flowers at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Trump begins a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
    November 04, 2017 - 2:22 am

    On eve of Asia trip, Trump pays visit to Pearl Harbor

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — President Donald Trump paid a solemn visit to the memorial at Pearl Harbor, a sacred journey for a commander-in-chief about to depart on an Asia trip that will be shadowed by fears of another international conflict. Trump saluted Friday after entering...
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    CAPTION ADDITION LOCATION: U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump offer flowers at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Trump begins a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
    November 04, 2017 - 12:29 am

    Trump visits Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona memorial

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — President Donald Trump paid a solemn visit Friday to Pearl Harbor and its memorial to the USS Arizona, a hallowed place he said he had read about, discussed and studied but had never visited until just before opening his first official visit to Asia...
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    CAPTION ADDITION LOCATION: U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump lay a wreath at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Trump begins a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
    November 04, 2017 - 12:13 am

    The Latest: Trump visits Hawaii's USS Arizona memorial

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's visit to Hawaii (all times local): 6 p.m. President Donald Trump has paid a solemn visit to Hawaii's Pearl Harbor and its memorial to the USS Arizona. Trump saluted after entering the memorial following a short...
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    October 08, 2017 - 3:38 pm

    Man killed at Pearl Harbor buried nearly 76 years later

    GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The remains of a South Carolina man killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor have been buried nearly 76 years later. Navy Seaman First Class Milton Reece Surratt was a 19-year-old cook on the USS Oklahoma when torpedoes sank the battleship Dec. 7, 1941. Surratt was...
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    August 02, 2017 - 3:34 pm

    Remains of Minnesota sailor killed at Pearl Harbor confirmed

    MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — The family of a Minnesota sailor who was killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has received confirmation that exhumed remains are his. Two of Radioman 2nd Class Quentin Gifford's siblings learned this week that tests on DNA they submitted last year confirmed the remains...
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    Workers go over the final installation of the permanent exhibit "Salute to the Home Front" at the National World War II Museum which will open to the public this Saturday, in New Orleans, Monday, June 5, 2017. The exhibit tells the home front story from the 1920s to the development of the atomic bomb. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
    June 06, 2017 - 4:07 am

    New National WWII Museum exhibit looks at fight on homefront

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A rusted fragment of the battleship USS Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor, a woman's munitions plant uniform and ration books all tell the complex story of life on the homefront in a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. "Salute to the Home Front," which...
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    In this May 30, 2017 photo, sculptor Susan Geissler works on a clay likeness of World War II hero C. Wade McClusky Jr. in her Youngstown, N.Y., studio. The clay model will form the basis for a bronze monument planned for the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in McClusky's hometown of Buffalo, N.Y. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for June 4, the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway and of McClusky's heroics as a pilot. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
    June 03, 2017 - 9:17 am

    75 years after Midway, US Navy hero honored in NY hometown

    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — C. Wade McClusky Jr. faced a tough decision on June 4, 1942: turn his low-on-fuel U.S. Navy air squadron around or keep searching for the Japanese fleet headed for Midway. He decided to go on and wound up changing history. The dive bombers McClusky led that day in the Battle of...
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    Vice President Mike Pence stands with his wife Karen as they pose for a photo with officials and U.S. service members during a refueling stop in Pago Pago, American Samoa, Monday, April 24, 2017. Pence stopped in American Samoa after leaving Australia en route to Hawaii. (AP Photo/Ken Thomas)
    April 24, 2017 - 7:35 pm

    Pence thanks US military members during stop in Hawaii

    HONOLULU (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is thanking members of the U.S. military in Hawaii for their service "in these uncertain times" in the Asia-Pacific. Pence was speaking with service members during a lunch at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. The visit comes at the end of the vice...
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    FILE - In this April 20, 2016, file photo, Raymond Haerry sits in West View Nursing & Rehabilitation in West Warwick, R.I. Haerry, one of the last living crew members on the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Sept. 27 in Rhode Island. His remains were interred on the sunken ship on Saturday, April 15, 2017, in Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. (Steve Szydlowski/Providence Journal via AP, File)
    April 18, 2017 - 1:39 pm

    USS Arizona survivor rejoins shipmates, interred aboard ship

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — One of the last surviving veterans of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been reunited with his fallen shipmates. Raymond Haerry was interred on the ship in a ceremony that his granddaughter says was solemn and beautiful. Haerry was 19 years...
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