Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

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

Freeman K. Johnson was expecting only a cake for his 105th birthday celebration Wednesday in Hyannis. But others had a different idea.

A World War II Navy veteran from Cape Cod and the oldest surviving veteran of Pearl Harbor was honored Wednesday at his 105th ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Former U.S. sailor, and Pearl Harbor survivor, Ken Stevens has died. Stevens' family said that he died Thursday at the age of 102, two months shy of his 103 birthday. His ...

Neil Frye was a 20-year-old mess attendant from Vass, N.C., aboard the USS West Virginia when a Japanese torpedo sank it in ...

Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye was 19 when he died during Pearl Harbor. Eight five years later, he's returning ...

Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Boston at the age of 19. Once enlisted, he served aboard the U.S.S. St. Louis, which ...

In January 2024, the destroyer USS Gravely had to use its close-in weapons ... She has reported for a variety of publications in Montana, Nevada and Louisiana, and served as editor of newspapers ...

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