Thomas Clouse

Four decades ago, gold flowed from Bonanza Ranch. Folks from most states and several foreign countries raced to buy their little piece of Idaho from ads they read in Outdoor Life and the Wall Street Journal.

Japanese fighters strafed the administration building at Pearl Harbor's submarine base. Panic seized Ray Daves, a 20-year-old Navy radioman. Then he fought back. He climbed to the building's roof, grabbed the handles of a .30-caliber machine gun and opened fire. He dived behind a three-foot brick wall when the fighters shot back. Sixty years later, attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., brought back the feeling of shock that Daves carried for days after the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor.