The USS Nevada served in World War I and World War II and sat off Bikini Atoll in July 1946 during atomic bomb tests, ...
Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, toward the end of World War II, two Japanese torpedoes sunk the USS […] ...
"Not since the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was sunk by the Japanese when they attacked our naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, has a ship or submarine borne the name Oklahoma,” said retired Navy Adm.
The display includes a model of the USS Arizona, which was sunk at Pearl Harbor ... to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor after the USNS Mercy hospital ship struck the memorial’s dock ...
which is the final resting place of more than 900 sailors and marines killed during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. The sunken battleship is still visible from the memorial floating above it.
Rescuers could hear tapping sounds coming from the battleship’s hull from trapped sailors who survived the attack, but “they were sitting on tons of live sunken ammunition and no technology ...
The National Park Service is engaged in a multiyear preservation project on six battle-scarred mooring quays in Pearl Harbor to repair decay and return them to their 1941 appearance. The mammoth ...
"The ship was sunk at midnight, and we had to stay on ... Mahaffey's death leaves just 14 living Pearl Harbor survivors, according to a list maintained by Kathleen Farley, the California state ...