For nearly a century, the people of Santa Clarita have come together each Independence Day to celebrate not just the birth of ...

Gingerly exploring an overgrown gulch about 20 minutes west of Pearl Harbor, the serenity punctuated only by the chatter of ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106, according to his family.

Drake never returned to Oahu or Pearl Harbor, and only occasionally shared his remarkable story in public. “I do feel like a part of history,” Drake told the Herald Leader in 2016.

History Past Conflicts World War II Oldest Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106 Vaughn Drake Jr. was a 23-year-old Army engineer working in Oahu when Japanese forces attacked the American base.

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With his death, only 15 remain, according to a tally kept by the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. On Dec. 7, 1941, Upton, then a 22-year-old petty officer, was starting his day ...

Today there are only 16 still living, according to a list maintained by Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors.

The attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy, which targeted Pearl Harbor and other military sites across Oahu, killed 2,390 U.S. servicemen. Of those, 1,177 were sailors and Marines on board the USS ...

One of the sole remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched World War II disobeyed orders and fought back. Now 100 years old, he continues to share his stories.

Very few people who remember the attack on Pearl Harbor are alive today. That does not, however, give the rest of us permission to not remember that day. Today, as is common on Dec. 7 here in the ...

Eighty-three years ago, on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the Pearl Harbor naval base was attacked early in the morning by hundreds of Japanese fighter planes, resulting in devastating consequences.