Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...

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.

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...

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

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.

John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became the namesake of a warship that served off Iwo Jima and Okinawa ...

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 ...

Eighty-four years after the Pearl Harbor attack, the remains of one of the last victims to be identified from the battleship USS West Virginia have come home to North Carolina. Mess Attendant 3rd ...