The USS Johnston sank during an engagement off Samar Island while coming to the rescue of escort carrier Gambier Bay. The ship was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation (the highest award for a ...

SPRING GREEN — Clete Ring can tell most of his story with relative calm. It was October 1944 and the then-18-year-old, who had enlisted in the U.S. Navy 17 months earlier when he was a junior at ...

Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Researchers have discovered the wreck of storied World War II battleship USS Nevada 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor.

First, it helps to understand that the sinking wasn’t an isolated case. Delgado assisted with underwater surveys of the USS Independence a carrier also sunk off the Bay Area Coast and was ...