Pearl Harbor

Some U.S. veterans who planned to climb aboard a battleship in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor to mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II instead watched a livestream of the ceremony from home

More than 250 veterans filled the Elks Lodge 1893 in Manchester to celebrate the Holiday Veterans Gathering on Thursday.

Floyd Welch, who was credited with saving the lives of fellow sailors during the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died in Connecticut. He was 99. Welch died peacefully at his home in East Lyme on Monday, his family said. Welch, who was born in February 1921 in Burlington, Connecticut, was serving aboard the USS Maryland on Dec. 7, 1941, when…

Connecticut’s sole remaining survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor attended a special ceremony Thursday recognizing the creation of a new memorial park.

One of the remaining USS Arizona crew members who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor has died.

New U.S. Navy submarines will revive the names of the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma, two of the biggest casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, officials said. Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly announced nuclear, Virginia-class attack submarines will carry the names, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday. The battleships were badly damaged...

A Navy commander says the motive is unknown for a Pearl Harbor shooting that left two civilian workers and the attacker dead. Authorities say 22-year-old Gabriel Romero killed Roldan Agustin, 49, and Vincent Kapoi Jr., 30, and wounded Roger Nakamine, 36, who survived the Dec. 4 shooting. Romero’s job was to stand watch and provide security for the fast attack submarine USS Columbia.

A dozen frail survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor returned Saturday to honor those who perished when Japanese planes pierced a quiet sunny morning 78 years ago and rained bombs on battleships lined up below. About 30 World War II veterans and some 2,000 members of the public joined the survivors, the youngest of whom are now in their…

Divers will place the ashes of a survivor from the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor in the wreckage of his ship during a ceremony this weekend. Lauren Bruner will be the 44th and last crew member to be interred on the Arizona in accordance with this rare Navy ritual. That’s because the last three living Arizona survivors plan to be...

Officials will beef up security as usual for the ceremony to remember those lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor 78 years ago, with service members and dignitaries confronting a fresh tragedy after a U.S. sailor killed two civilians, wounded another and then turned the gun on himself at the storied military base. The National Park Service, which is hosting…

Two people were killed and one was injured before a gunman killed himself in a shooting at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii Wednesday.

Accusations about actor Tom Cruise disrespecting crewmembers aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt were unfounded, Navy officials told NBC 7.

Two shark researchers who came face-to-face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii. Ocean Ramsey, a shark researcher and conservationist, told The Associated Press that she encountered the 20-foot (6-meter) shark Tuesday near a dead sperm whale off...

John Cyrulik dropped out of high school to care for his ailing father and support his family. Then he went to war, and never made it back to high school to earn his diploma – until now.

John Cyrulik dropped out of high school in the 1930s to care for his ailing father and support his family.

Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Don Long was alone on an anchored military seaplane in the middle of a bay across the island from Pearl Harbor when Japanese warplanes started striking Hawaii on December 7, 1941, watching from afar as the bombs and bullets killed and wounded thousands.

Ray Chavez, the oldest veteran survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, died in San Diego Wednesday, his loved ones confirmed.

A 93-year-old woman who was stranded in her Magalia, California, home as a raging wildfire spread through the county was rescued by her longtime sanitation worker on the last stop of his shift. NBC affiliate KCRA reports Margaret Newsum feared for her life after hearing news on TV Thursday morning about the Camp Fire threatening the town of Paradise, about...

Scott Wilson, who played the murderer Richard Hickock in 1967’s “In Cold Blood” and was a series regular on “The Walking Dead,” has died. He was 76. Wilson’s agent told TMZ that he died from complications of leukemia. AMC, the show’s network, announced Wilson’s death Saturday. The network called Wilson’s character on “The Walking Dead,” veterinarian Hershel Greene, “the emotional...

The governor is directing for U.S. and state flags in Connecticut to be lowered to half-staff in honor of a sailor who was killed in action during World War II. His remains were recently identified and returned to his family, according to Gov. Dannel Malloy.