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The last survivor of the USS Arizona died at 102 — more than 80 years after Pearl Harbor attack
Lou Conter was one of only 93 men on board the USS Arizona to survive its bombing in Japan's attack…
Erin Snodgrass
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Wargames show the US could burn through its ammo in 'as few as 3 to 4 weeks' in a war with China, commission warns
Some important munitions, like anti-ship missiles, might last only a few days, said the eight-perso…
Matthew Loh
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A US Navy battleship all but sunk at Pearl Harbor was brought back to life to battle the Germans on D-Day. The military later blasted it with a nuclear bomb.
The atomic testing severely damaged USS Nevada and left the famous ship radioactive. It was eventua…
Jake Epstein
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US Navy Super Hornets armed with SM-6s, a warship missile newly tested in combat, have been spotted in the Pacific
The ship-fired weapon looks to be getting a new role as a long-range air-to-air missile that could …
Jake Epstein
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80 years after 'Australia's Pearl Harbor,' tensions with China are raising fears of another attack Down Under
Darwin is still strategically important, but 80 years after World War II, the port city is facing t…
Benjamin Brimelow
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At least 122,000 Japanese Americans were locked up in internment camps after Pearl Harbor. More than 80 years later, its legacy lingers.
The forced internment of Japanese Americans was fueled not only by fears about espionage, but also …
Yoonji Han
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Uncensored WWII-era surveys show US troops' surprising thoughts about Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. On December 8, the Army began surveying so…
Edward J.K. Gitre
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How Hiroshima, formerly a humble castle town, and Pearl Harbor, once an ancient Hawaiian fishing spot, went from WWII-era enemies to being united as sister parks to promote peace
This is the second sister park agreement between the United States and Japan. The first is a relati…
Elias Chavez
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US Navy warships have the tools to fend off exploding drones like those wrecking a Russian fleet, but it's a dangerous and evolving threat
Ukraine has used naval drones to batter Russia's Black Sea Fleet, but now the Houthis are trying to…
Jake Epstein
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The Nazis were already shooting at US warships months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
The US officially declared war on the Nazis on December 11, 1941, but the US Navy had already been …
Benjamin Brimelow
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How the Navy's most important ships avoided destruction at Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a massive blow to the US Navy, destroying planes, sinking ships, and…
Benjamin Brimelow
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The Navy created incredible photos comparing Pearl Harbor today to the day of the Japanese attack
Sailors on Ford Island watch the Mahan-class destroyer USS Shaw explode after the attack on Pearl H…
Business Insider
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19 unforgettable images from the Pearl Harbor attack 79 years ago
They did not know that for hours the Japanese naval fleet and air forces had been speeding across t…
Business Insider
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How one of Japan's 'secret weapons' at Pearl Harbor ended up being the US's first prisoner of war
As Japanese planes swarmed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a secretive naval unit — "a suicide sq…
Benjamin Brimelow
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How 'the first Pearl Harbor' convinced the Japanese they could pull off a similar attack on the US
The British raid on Taranto in November 1940 gave the Royal Navy control in the Mediterranean, but …
Benjamin Brimelow
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Hawaii governor orders the Navy to shutdown its WWII-era fuel storage facility at Pearl Harbor after petroleum leaks into water supply
Hawaii's governor said the Navy must suspend fuel operations at Red Hill and come up with a plan to…
Abbie Shull
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A Ukrainian drone pilot described an attack on the Russian navy being ruined when Elon Musk cut his Starlink access
The unnamed Ukrainian soldier said Elon Musk "switched off" access to Starlink, ruining a drone att…
Thibault Spirlet
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What is Israel trying to achieve in its brutal Gaza war?
Two months in, Israel is dead-set on what war experts see as a half-baked strategy that's playing r…
Sam Fellman
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The WWII Tokyo firebombing was the deadliest air raid in history, with a death toll exceeding those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The US air raid killed up to 100,000 Japanese people, most of them civilians, signaling an escalati…
Yoonji Han
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Hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, US Marines took on the Japanese in what became the Alamo of the Pacific
The destruction of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor meant Wake Island was on its own as Japan a…