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 ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A sailor killed serving on board the USS West Virginia during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor will be laid to rest on the same day a tribute will take place at the ship’s mast.
At 7:57 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Doris Miller was collecting laundry aboard the USS West Virginia when the call to battle stations sounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite not being trained ...
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that it had identified a 23-year-old sailor who died aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Dec. 7, 1941, ...
Eighty-two years ago today, Charles H. Morgan Jr., then 16, accompanied his father on an early morning walk near the Pearl Harbor shoreline when Japanese aircraft began bombing and strafing nearby ...
The remains of one of the U.S. sailors killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 returned home Wednesday, landing at Tulsa International Airport, CBS affiliate KOTV reports. Navy ...
Two Erie sailors reported by the Erie Daily Times as possible casualties at Pearl Harbor survived the Japanese attack. Jack Mook, of Chestnut Street, was serving aboard the USS Oglala on Dec. 7, 1941.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The USS West Virginia was a Colorado Class battleship that was commissioned in 1923. Through the 1930s the battleship participated in routine training missions called Fleet ...
A 106-year-old former nurse gave the Pearl Harbor museum the bullet that brought her and her late husband together after the Dec. 1941 USS West Virginia attack.