SEVENTY YEARS ago this Wednesday, a wave of Japanese war planes swooped over America’s chief Pacific Naval base at Pearl Harbor and dropped their armor-piercing bombs on “Battleship Row.” The attack ...

It’s hard to explain, let alone understand what happened on November 5th, 2024, but it surely will be remembered as a day of infamy (to quote Franklin Roosevelt), almost as horrendous as December 7, ...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. AP File Photo WILKES-BARRE — On Aug.

On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the Pottsville Evening Republican produced a special edition. There was no Sunday paper at the time, and the editors ran a text block on the mast head explaining their ...

A solemn remembrance of those who perished during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces culminated with a moving speech authored by Ret. Maj. Gen./Chaplain Charles C. Baldwin ...

On this day in 1941, America went to war. The world-altering enormity of the attack on Pearl Harbor was just beginning to come into view when the Herald went to press the next day. “Warship Fired, ...

The word ‘infamy’ became popular in the political arena after President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the USA used the word to describe the day the Japanese carried out a surprise ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) compared the December 2016 date of former President Barack Obama’s meeting with National Security Council officials to Pearl Harbor, saying that day “will live in infamy” because ...

It is an honor to be here today on this solemn occasion to reflect upon the infamous tragedy of Dec. 7, 1941, and pay tribute to those who perished. Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the attack on ...