Hundreds of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, cocooned within one of the US Navy’s most technologically advanced pieces of equipment, Rear Adm. Jeff Jablon is clear-eyed about the two biggest challenges his team faces.
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The 81st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor will be commemorated Wednesday during a ceremony in Norco, featuring patriotic music and recollections from that “Day of Infamy,” which propelled the United States from neutral to Allied leader in World War II.
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[bc_video video_id=”6214780140001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”rJpklujDf” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] Dec. 7th, 1941 was a day that changed history. It was also a day that shaped the course of Palm Desert resident Robert Borelli’s life. “I’m 95 years old now, and I think about it every day since it happened,” […]
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Multiple agencies are investigating Wednesday’s shooting at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, where authorities say a US sailor killed two civilian workers and injured another before killing himself. The motive for the shooting is unclear. The shooter’s name has not been released, but he was an active-duty US sailor assigned to the submarine USS Columbia, officials said […]
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Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, has died at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103. A spokesman says Cole died Tuesday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Robert Whetstone, a […]
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[bc_video video_id=”5977010787001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Nearly one million soldiers trained in the Coachella Valley for World War II efforts, the desert was also a test site for a lethal weapon that would change the course of the war. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy struck the Pearl […]
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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. The waves of attacking planes reached his military […]
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Ray Chavez, the oldest U.S. military survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into World War II, died Wednesday. He was 106. Chavez, who had been battling pneumonia, died in his sleep in the San Diego suburb of Poway, his daughter, Kathleen Chavez, told The Associated Press. […]
