Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last week’s remembrance ...

By Rachel Nostrant Robert Fernandez, one of the last known American survivors of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Wednesday in Lodi, Calif., just days after the 83rd anniversary of the attack.

Bob Fernandez had hoped to attend the 83rd Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day on Saturday. When Bob Fernandez joined the Navy in August 1941, his innocence was forgivable. Only 17, he had grown up in ...

During FreightWaves’ State of Freight webinar for December, Craig Fuller, FreightWaves CEO, and SONAR Director of Freight Market Intelligence Zach Strickland, said the future of the freight ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Ira “Ike” Schab, a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, spent six weeks in physical therapy to build the strength to stand and salute during a remembrance ...

Four months later, he found himself shaking from explosions and passing ammunition to artillery crews so his ship's guns could return fire on Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor, a Navy base in ...

As bombs fell on Pearl Harbor during a shocking attack, transforming serene Hawaiian waters into a graveyard of twisted metal, burning wreckage and the roar of destruction, Earl “Chuck” Kohler ...

December 7, 1941, began as a perfect Sunday morning for the troops serving the US fleet at Pearl Harbor. Under a early morning South Pacific sun, softball teams were lining up on the beach.

Pearl Harbor "changed the future of the world," U.S. President Joe Biden said at a White House event for veterans and their families on Friday, the eve of the anniversary of Japan's surprise ...

Fernandez, now 100, was 17 when he joined the Navy just months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A Japanese warplane crashed into Fernandez’s ship, the USS Curtiss. It’s believed there are ...

FedEx Corp. on Dec. 19 announced its intent to spin off its FedEx Freight unit into a separate company, creating the largest publicly traded LTL carrier in North America in the process.