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

USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. W hen it comes to legendary ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on ...

Battleship Row on Dec. 7 ... We had long since identified all the ships of the Kido Butai that had attacked Pearl Harbor, and their silhouettes were posted on the wall in the Estimates Section.

This is the story of the USS Arizona - the famous battleship that was destroyed at Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona is the famous battleship was destroyed during the Attack on Pearl Harbor - Dec 7, 1941.

They still had battleships—the backbone of ... of leveling off and racing toward an American ship, the weapon would bury itself in Pearl Harbor’s muddy bottom unless somebody thought of ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

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

it was notable that the vaunted battleships, with their massive displacements, heavy armor, and long-range weapons, were not the ships that defeated the Americans at Pearl Harbor. It was the ...