The radar detected the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, although the military failed to react.
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America's first formal dog-procurement program began following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
They married on December 31, 1942, just about a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II.
That tumultuous time between the invasion of Poland and the attack on Pearl Harbor gave rise to a conflict at home that pitted isolationists against interventionists.
He reminded the cadets the surprise attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in 1941 sparked dramatic changes in the military and the September 11 attacks have done the same.
But, according to an Army history, the Navy was still in shambles after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and no ships were capable of bringing reinforcements.
The population of the United States has more than doubled since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but the number of licensed drinking establishments has shrunk by as much as two-thirds.
He had joined the service after graduating from high school during the Great Depression and had been discharged in 1941, but re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II.
When bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, when an Iron Curtain fell over Europe, when the threat of nuclear war loomed just 90 miles from this city, when a brilliant September morning was darkened by terror -- in none of those instances did we falter.
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Nearly 10 years ago, America suffered the worst attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor.
For almost 50 years--from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, until the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989--the U.S. was beset by mortal enemies.
Mr. Ford's Field Photographic Branch, which produced Academy Award-winning documentaries for the military on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, created a film to be shown at the war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg.
On December 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States.
Holder cited the attacks at Pearl Harbor and on Sept. 11, 2001, as examples.
The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, was a violent shock, but only in the nature and extent of the destruction: by then, most Americans had come to believe that the country would be dragged into the global war with Fascism one way or another, though their eyes were fixed on Europe, not the Pacific.
Transformers Director Michael Bay then became one of the Bad Boys by dropping a Pearl Harbor-sized bomb on Paramount regarding its decision in a blog post since deleted and retracted, leading to speculation it was really the Decepticon version of Michael Bay that made the original posting.
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Jennifer Klein, producer of Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, holds her bash on the first Saturday of every December.
Back on Oahu, we paid our respects at Pearl Harbor Memorial and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and travelled back in time to the amazing Kualoa Ranch, where their variety of all-terrain tours, including on horseback and all-terrain vehicles, demonstrated why this was the eye-catching location for such films and TV shows as Jurassic Park, Godzilla, Windtalkers and Lost.
Justice Stevens has courageously served his country from the moment he enlisted the day before Pearl Harbor to his long and distinguished tenure on the Supreme Court.
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Holder said a potential scenario might involve a president ordering such action "to protect the homeland" in a case like the 2001 al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington or the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The annual summer movie onslaught will only build upon previous releases heavy on digital enhancements, such as Lord of the Rings and Pearl Harbor, while the latest Star Wars release, which hits screens at midnight, is nudging the entire film industry toward taking traditional film out of the movie-making process entirely and replacing it with digital formats.
He went on to star in such big-budget blockbusters as Armageddon and Pearl Harbor before turning his hand to directing.
The two-hour Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack is set to air May 27 on National Geographic's newly launched cable channel and the same night on NBC.
Ballard's latest products are a book and a TV show timed to capitalize on the frenzy of interest around the Memorial Day release of the Disney movie Pearl Harbor.
He also started getting the handwritten memories of countless couples who met at a Carnegie concert, of the man who, as a 10-year-old, was sitting in the hall's balcony on Dec. 7, 1941, when Arthur Rubinstein was playing Brahms and the Japanese were attacking Pearl Harbor.
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