Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly ...

As the Marines and Army’s Wildcats prepared to storm Peleliu and Angaur, they could only watch as the USS Tennessee unleashed relentless barrages from her powerful 14-inch Mark IV guns.

By Amanda Holpuch Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and who was among the last living ...

Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, died March 1 in Alexandria, La. He was 102.

Freeman K. Johnson enlisted in the Navy as a teenager and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked in 1941. In 1945, he watched from the USS Iowa in Tokyo Bay as the Japanese formally ...