The USS West Virginia became a primary target, enduring a brutal onslaught of bombs and torpedoes that left her engulfed in flames and flooding rapidly. ... The Warship Built for Payback.

The remains of Garrettsville, Ohio native William Kubinec, who was killed aboard the USS West Virginia in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, will be buried at 2 p.m. Dec. 6, 2024, in the ...

Battleship USS West Virginia was commissioned in 1923 and would spend the next two decades conducting routine training exercises and standard deployments until the Second World War.