Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...
The USS Nevada served in World War I and World War II and sat off Bikini Atoll in July 1946 during atomic bomb tests, ...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - NOAA researchers recently made an unlikely discovery while exploring the wreckage of the USS Nevada.
The Japanese sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, is truly a day that lives in infamy. In the early hours of that fateful Sunday, Japanese forces struck several high-value ...
The remains of a North Carolina sailor who died during the Pearl Harbor attack will return home ... was lost when the USS West Virginia was sunk by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941.
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii--Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor's uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party. He went ...
By that same tally, only 14 veterans who survived the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack are still alive ... and he once again cheated death when it was sunk Nov. 30, 1942, during the Battle of Tassafaronga ...
The discovery is all the more surprising given the U.S.S. Nevada was decommissioned and uncrewed when towed 65 nautical miles southeast of Pearl Harbor and intentionally sunk in 1948.
The Nevada survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but years later after its decommissioning, it became target practice and was eventually sunk in the Pacific. Decades later, a NOAA team ...