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How recovering a Japanese Zero at Pearl Harbor added to its mystery

The first chance for the U.S. to inspect the iconic Mitsubishi Zero revealed surprisingly few hard facts.

This sailor fought the Japanese at Pearl Harbor—with football pads on

As the first Japanese planes swept over Pearl Harbor, Ganitch’s focus shifted from the gridiron to the skies.

The ordnance that made the attack on Pearl Harbor so devastating

A brief description of some of the bombs and torpedoes the Japanese used to add devastation to the Dec. 7, 1941 attack.

‘So this is war’: A young Marine’s account of days before Pearl Harbor

Marine 2nd Lt. Robert D. Taplett missed Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor but would go on to experience the Doolittle Raid.

Could a young Army pilot have prevented the Pearl Harbor attack?

A fateful day — and question — shadowed Kermit Tyler all his life.

The American woman who sculpted new faces for battle-scarred WWI vets

The horrors of large-caliber machine guns and artillery warfare ushered in a new age of gruesome deaths and injuries.

Killer instinct: How one man taught US soldiers to fight dirty in WWII

Francois d’Eliscu's training regimen was so hazardous that by March 1943 trainees in the program had already suffered 1,600 injuries.

Opinion

Document the stories of the ‘Greatest Generation’ before it’s too late

In this Veterans Day op-ed, a military history filmmaker implores Americans to document the stories of World War II veterans while they're still alive.

Remains of Civil War veterans found in funeral home’s storage

For decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities.

UK D-Day vet who escorted US troops to Normandy beaches dies at 99

George Chandler was one of the dwindling cohort of D-Day survivors who gathered last summer to commemorate its 80th anniversary.