President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said the date would live in infamy. Dec. 7, 1941, 72 years ago today, changed the course of history. Events of that day were seared into the collective memory ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo slammed into the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending the bow, two gun turrets and more than 180 sailors to the bottom of Ironbottom Sound, near Guadalcanal in the ...