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 to ...
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller was doing laundry below deck of the battleship USS West Virginia, yet another in an endless series of menial tasks to which he ...
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The battleship that rose from Pearl Harbor for revenge
USS West Virginia was sunk at Pearl Harbor after absorbing multiple torpedo hits and bombs. Salvaged from the harbor floor, she was rebuilt with modern weapons and radar. Three years later, West ...
Eighty-four years after the Pearl Harbor attack, the remains of one of the last victims to be identified from the battleship USS West Virginia have come home to North Carolina. Mess Attendant 3rd ...
Summary: Designed during World War I, the U.S. Navy’s Colorado-class battleships represented the last of the pre-Washington Naval Treaty era, with three out of four planned ships—Colorado, Maryland, ...
When torpedoes struck his battleship, Neil Frye was just 20 years old — a country boy halfway around the world from his tiny hometown of Vass, North Carolina, caught off-guard on an infamous day. He ...
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