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.
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.
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 ...
A World War II Navy veteran from Cape Cod and the oldest surviving veteran of Pearl Harbor was honored Wednesday at his 105th ...
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.
Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye was 19 when he died during Pearl Harbor. Eight five years later, he's returning ...
He jumped in the water and swam to the USS Maryland after Oklahoma sank. Mahaffey shared his story with KTBS on Dec. 7, 2024. Here’s a link: North Louisiana Pearl Harbor survivor recalls the ...
From 2005 to 2011, Pearl was the head coach at Tennessee, where he led the Volunteers to the NCAA tournament each year he was at the helm. Fruitful as it was, the end of Pearl's tenure in ...
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 ...