In February 1944, the United States launched a devastating attack on Truk Lagoon, a critical Japanese naval base in the Caroline Islands, drawing immediate comparisons to Pearl Harbor. Once ...

By Amanda Holpuch Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and who was among the last living ...