Inside a gallery that remembers the forced Japanese internment – CBS News Watch CBS News It’s been 83 years since President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that authorized the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. A new exhibit shows the importance of remembering. Ryan Yamamoto reports. Be the first to know Get…
Bob Fernandez thought he would go dancing and see the world when he joined the US Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941. In August 1941, at the age of 17, Bob Fernandez enlisted in the U.S. Navy with the intention of seeing the globe and dancing(AP) Four months later, he found…
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Bob Fernandez thought he’d go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941. 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…
The United States has positioned three aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific Ocean this week, including two “flattops” underway in the region during their deployments. Meanwhile, all three Chinese aircraft carriers were pierside at two bases and a shipyard. A Japanese helicopter destroyer, bearing the same name as an aircraft carrier that took part in…
A U.S. aircraft carrier entered the contested South China Sea this week, following a surge deployment that had seen it retasked to the Middle East for combat operations. In China, two aircraft carriers were spotted underway in the country’s coastal waters. A Japanese destroyer, bearing the same name as an aircraft carrier that took part…