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 ...

Three U.S. airmen disappeared after bailing out of a burning B-17 over Germany 80 years ago. An Offutt recovery team ...

The 8th Air Force was established in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor in February of 1942. The Mighty 8th ...

Warren “Red” Upton, a 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the ... Upton’s death came nearly three weeks after the 83rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor and two months after he celebrated ...

A measure has been signed renaming the U.S. post office on Tancahua Street after ... He was also among the last known local survivors of the Pear Harbor attack before he passed away in August ...

− The oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attacks ... It spurred the U.S. to enter World War II. Upton served as a radioman throughout the war, Farley said. After his service, he returned ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --After 66 years of outdoor display on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol, a 4/50 gun that arguably fired the second American shot of World War II at Pearl Harbor is on the ...

Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining ... pushing the United States into World War II. There were about 87,000 military ...

after suffering a bout of pneumonia, said Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors ... the US into World War II. Upton told The Associated ...

The battleship was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese bombed the naval base in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack launched the United States into World War II. Upton died just shortly after the ...