According to the USS West Virginia’s website, 106 of the ship’s sailors died in the attack. According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Kubinec’s remains were recovered during ...

The ship is considered a war grave and remains ... To the left are the USS Tennessee (BB-43) and the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48). File Photo by U.S. Navy In October 2023, one platform ...

The Mobile Chamber had opposed a partnership's bid to dismantle the former USS Enterprise in Mobile; company leading the work ...

Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy’s largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with ...

The Arizona lost most of its crew and the USS West Virginia, which took some direct bomb hits, also had sunk. A gun turret was hit on Thornton’s ship and there were fires, he said. Thornton said ...

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a highly rare move that will ...

LA Fleet Week will begin on Friday, May 23, and run through Memorial Day. Last year’s Fleet Week drew an estimated 100,000 attendees.

On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to ...

The two Chinese carriers currently in the western Pacific employ the older “ski-jump” launch method for aircraft, with a ramp ...

The battleship USS West Virginia was the only ship damaged at Pearl that was present in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered. The Japanese sank the battlewagon in Pearl Harbor with six ...

When it comes to American military history, few units are as storied and famous as the Harlem Hellfighters. Officially the ...