Rob Kauder

Over the years dozens of movies and television miniseries have been produced about World War II in Europe and the Pacific, but of those, there are only a handful that touched upon the event that thrust the United States into the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor, 83 years ago Saturday.

5:30 a.m. – If you were a subscriber of The Spokesman-Review, the top headlines in the morning paper on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, were the German attack on Moscow and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt writing the Emperor of Japan about troop movements in the Far East. Meanwhile, the top story in the sports section was Washington State College’s loss to Texas A & M in the Evergreen Bowl.

Multiple school districts and university campuses are closed and crews are out running plow trucks as the Inland Northwest woke up Wednesday morning under a blanket of several inches of fresh powder.

When Thad McManus, 79, a retired teacher who lives in Poulsbo, spoke about the Cuban Missile Crisis to his history students at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, where he was a teacher for 28 years before retiring in 1998, he wasn’t quoting from a book. He’d been there.

With Memorial Day 2022, the first in many years that the United States is not engaged in a major war on foreign soil, we are reminded that conflicts always come with a first casualty as well as a last.

Following a more than 10-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean, four KC-135 tankers from Fairchild Air Force Base arrived in Germany Wednesday to support NATO operations in eastern Europe as the Russia-Ukraine War nears the end of its second week.

The Defense Department announced Monday it would be deploying 500 additional troops to support NATO operations in eastern Europe, including tankers and support personnel from Fairchild Air Force Base to a base in the Mediterranean.

80 years ago this week, on a sleepy Sunday morning over Oahu, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida was flying his Nakajima B5N “Kate” torpedo bomber, leading the first wave of raiders from the Kidō Butai -- an armada of six Imperial Japanese Navy carriers -- toward his target when Pearl Harbor came into view.