Army headquarters was on the other side of the island, as was the Navy base at Pearl Harbor, the most important American base in the Pacific. But between the privates and Alaska, 2,000 miles away ...

The 1st Air Fleet of Japan — known as Kido Butai — had not just assaulted the port at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, it had simultaneously hit every major airfield across the breadth of Oahu ...

"December 7th 1941 was a watershed in the lives of nearly everyone in Hawaii," wrote Wilfred J. "Jasper" Holmes in his memoir, "Double-Edged Secrets." "Monday dawned on a different world with ...