William Henry Pratt, who survived both the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of dangerous patrols aboard a ...

One of the most devastating attacks in American history, Pearl Harbor will forever be remembered as the moment the country ...

William Henry Pratt was 19 and served on the USS Nevada during the 1941 attack. His brother Basil Pratt was also on the ship and survived.

Even with the fairly recent arrival of the United States Pacific Fleet which had deployed to the island from San Diego to their new main base at Pearl Harbor ... as Battleship Row and the sight ...

T he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor achieved as nearly complete a surprise on an opponent as any in military history. Ever since the first bombs fell along Battleship Row on Dec. 7, 1941, ...

The ship was the Nevada, a World War I-era, 27,500-ton battleship built in Quincy, Massachusetts, and commissioned in 1916. Japanese planes attacked the Nevada during Pearl Harbor, but by the time ...

Thursday’s ceremony was held on a field across the harbor from the USS Arizona Memorial, a white structure that sits above the rusting hull of the battleship ... the front row, Pearl Harbor ...