Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...

Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye died at age 19 during the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Thursday, he was ...

It’s hard to deny the importance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in modern history. After all, if the calm hadn’t been ...

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...

The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...

Both Norman Scott and Daniel J. Callaghan would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the intense naval battle.

the ship served in the Korean War and the Gulf War before docking in Pearl Harbor and opening as a memorial. It holds the distinction of being the world's last active service battleship.

The history of Jews in the Hawaiian Islands, when they arrived, what happened during World War II, and what their lives are ...

The principles of eyewitness memory operate in many realms of life, including memory for even relatively elemental historical ...

He was serving aboard the battleship West Virginia when it was attacked by Japanese aircraft while moored at Fort Island, Pearl Harbor. The ship sustained multiple torpedo hits, but failed to capsize ...

Chief Warrant Officer John Connolly was previously buried as an Unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii until his remains were positively identified decades later and moved ...

The Congress of 1899 authorized the construction of three, and the Congress of 1900 of two first-class battleships, which to-day constitute what is known as the “Georgia” class. These ships ...