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This military training camp team almost won a national championship

On Nov. 20, 1943, the eyes of a weary nation focused, just for a moment, on a battle playing out stateside.

By Claire Barrett

15 hours ago

These Army-Navy game players would go on to receive the Medal of Honor

Eleven cadets and midshipmen who played for their service academies would go on to receive the nation's highest award for valor.

By Claire Barrett

2 days ago

Why Hitler declared war on the United States

Was it an irrational act? Hardly. Pearl Harbor merely gave him the excuse he had long been seeking.

By Gerhard L. Weinberg

2 days ago

The Army-Navy game that ‘stopped the war’

The 1944 game delivered a brief respite from the far-flung battles across the globe, drawing attention back to a good, old-fashioned American rivalry.

By Claire Barrett

3 days ago

Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive

As survivors fade, their descendants and the public are increasingly turning to other ways of learning about the bombing.

5 days ago

How one Japanese vessel spectacularly failed at Pearl Harbor

Even before the first Japanese bomb fell, the HA-19 and four other Type A midget submarines were meant to deal the first blow to the “sleeping giant."

By Claire Barrett

6 days ago