The USS West Virginia, nicknamed the Wee Vee, was a Colorado-class battleship commissioned in 1923. The first captain was Thomas J. Senn.

Eighty-three years ago Saturday, 106 crewmen aboard the USS West Virginia lost their lives after the battleship was struck by at least seven torpedoes and two bombs from Japanese aircraft and sank ...

Following her service in the Philippines, Battleship West Virginia joined the Navy’s Fifth Fleet in 1945 to prepare for the attack on Iwo Jima. Subsequently, she participated in the Battle of ...

The original USS West Virginia, the last battleship built before World War II, was commissioned on Dec. 1, 1923. It had joined the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor a year before the Japanese attack.

The battleship U.S.S. West Virginia was among the Navy warships anchored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941 when bombers and torpedo planes launched from Japanese aircraft carriers carried ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The USS West Virginia was a Colorado Class battleship that was commissioned in 1923. Through the 1930s the battleship participated in routine training missio ...

Randy Kendrick and her husband, Ken, have given West Virginia University a life preserver from the battleship USS West Virginia, which was sunk in the Japanese Empire’s attack on Pearl Harbor ...

But first, a look at the events that led up to the disastrous attack. Nicknamed the "Wee-Vee," the USS West Virginia measured more than 600 feet long and could hold over 1,400 sailors.

On Dec. 7, 1941, Frye was assigned to the battleship USS West Virginia, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft.

Two Erie sailors reported by the Erie Daily Times as possible casualties at Pearl Harbor survived the Japanese attack. Jack Mook, of Chestnut Street, was serving aboard the USS Oglala on Dec. 7 ...