Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy USS Silversides The USS Silversides began service on December 15, 1941, eight days after the ...

The Pearl Harbor Avenger Portsmouth Naval Shipyard got orders to build new submarines on December 15, 1941, just eight days ...

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Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy The 1942 Japanese Balloon Bomb Attack (Oregon) Japan sent over 9,000 ...

The 1942 Japanese Submarine Bombing of Mount Emily, Oregon The Japanese submarine I-25 reached southern Oregon in September ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ken Thomas Cataloochee Valley Cataloochee Valley was home to over 750 people by the early 1900s in what is ...

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Wikimedia Commons The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village The Mitchell villagers were among the first farming communities on ...

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Ripon Republican Party Formation On March 20, 1854, people gathered in the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.