KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Hokule’a crew members drape lei on the bow of the canoe after a welcome ceremony ...
Chief Carpenter’s Mate Ted McKindley Furr, who was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor attack, will be laid to rest with full military honors on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the ...
Furr’s niece, Nancy Matzdorff, was “surprised and thrilled” when the military informed her of Furr’s identification. She ...
Robert “Bob” Fernandez, 100, Stockton’s last link to Pearl Harbor, is remembered in a ceremony Jan. 11, 2025, in Lodi, ...
Pearl Harbor survivor Harry Chandler died Dec. 30 at 103 years old. (Mengshin Lin/AP) Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 ...
Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining ... The then-22-year-old swam ashore to Ford Island, where he jumped in a trench to ...
Chandler, a Navy medic, is the third Pearl Harbor survivor to die in the past few weeks; only 15 others are still living.
The Pride of Douglas has received an invitation to represent the state of Alabama at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii for the 84th ...
The last survivor of the U.S.S. Utah, he was a 22-year-old Navy radioman when Japanese forces attacked. By Adeel Hassan Warren Upton, the oldest survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in ...
The Utah, a battleship, was moored at Pearl Harbor when Japanese planes began ... and the ship began to list and capsize. The then-22-year-old swam ashore to Ford Island, where he jumped in ...
Upton remained a proud member of the USS Utah and Pearl Harbor survivor communities. While he did not mind sharing his experience of the attack, the loss of his shipmates over the years saddened him.