Hording? Shelter-at-home? Government restrictions? Food shortages? Fact vs fake news? “You have a most grave responsibility to the nation now ...the whole fu...

The Footfalls of History 7 December 1941- Day of the Pearl Harbor Attack Tadao Fuchikami, Messenger Boy #9, roared up to RCA-Communication on his Indian Scou...

At our age, Andy and I vacation not to sit and veg, but to see and learn. We broke up the long flight from PDX to Finland with a two-night stopover in Icelan...

The Footfalls of History In 1919 when countries were picking up the pieces of the Great War, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and othe...

We took advantage of our time in Finland which shares its eastern border with Russia, to make an overnight trip to Vyborg, Russia, by ferrying through a lock...

The Footfalls of History Nina in Tsingtau 1931 Stashed among the piles of paper of my grandfather’s (George Street) notebooks, was the front page of Section ...

The Footfalls of History One of the more intriguing things I learned while researching Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning involved the issue of food. Once war brok...

The Footfalls of History When I began writing Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning, I kept coming across the word “Cantonment.” I also had a W-2 from a cantonment. M...

If you don't already know, I wrote a book and self published it through Amazon. It's about a German who spied for the Japanese before the Pearl Harbor attack...

The Footfalls of History She was 5 foot tall and 100 pounds on a wet day. And she was a Marine. Not a WAVE or a WAAC or a SPARS or a CWAC. “They are Marines....

The Footfalls of History It was 1942, and the fleet was in. In Honolulu prostitution was legal, and it was [1]welcomed. A white river of uniforms, peppered w...

The Footfalls of History It was a typical 1939 Honolulu day, sunny at Waikiki and sultry in the highlands when Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Shivers stepped...

The Rest of the Story- Takeo Yoshikawa; from playboy spy to poverty Takeo Yoshikawa, code-named Tadashi Morimura, wove his way into the Money Eater; Bernard ...

The Rest of the Story-Dr. and Mrs. Mori My grandfather made a horrible mistake in 1941. He suspected a prominent Japanese couple of being spies and turned t...

The Footfalls of History; Tidbits of history that we found during our research. 7 December 1941~ 1:00 pm – Niihau Island, Territory of Hawaii Japanese Pilot ...

Watch out world the Olsen kids are back! I’ve teamed up with my brother, Jim Olsen to make this book sing. Our first collaborative effort was a masterpiece-a...

Seventy five years ago a message arrived too late—too late to warn the command at Pearl Harbor that Japan was probably going to strike somewhere in the Pacif...

My mom use to make this for dessert, adapted from The Victory Binding of the American Woman’s Cook Book— 1942 War Time Edition. It’s a fun way to convert ...

On this day, seventy five years ago, my uncle, George Street, Jr. turned nineteen. He lived on Oahu with his father and my mother and was saving money to a...

Writing about Pearl Harbor has been a wonderful learning experience. And one of the best has been uncovering the stories about ordinary civilians and thei...