Two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese submarine shot a torpedo at an American oil tanker just off the California coast, sinking the ship and sending 3 million gallons of crude to the bottom of the ocean.
Nights at the museum aren't always as quiet as you'd think. There are parties and corporate events. Sometimes, dozens of kids and their parents are allowed in for one big, fairly sleepless sleepover.
One of Civil Air Patrol's most famous World War II "Subchasers," honored for heroism by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died on Saturday, Dec. 5, after a long illness. He was 96 years old.
During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and at least one wheelchair, the legendary code breakers returned for a reunion Tuesday.