was assigned to the USS West Virginia. The bell from the original ship, an armored cruiser, is at Oglebay Plaza. The bell from the battleship that was sunk at Pearl Harbor is at the West Virginia ...

(WOWK) – A sailor who died aboard the USS West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor will finally be laid to rest this week. Fireman 2nd Class William Paul Kubinec was born Dec. 16 ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Only a few months later, Chief Carpenter’s Mate (CCM) Ted McKinley Furr died aboard USS Oklahoma when Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor ... and USS West Virginia (BB-48), among others.

Warren Upton was a 22-year-old Navy radioman assigned to the USS Utah, a demilitarized battleship moored at Pearl Harbor, when the first of two torpedoes struck the vessel the morning of Dec. 7 ...

Nimitz Dec. 7, 1941, began as a typical Sunday morning, as sailors on the USS Arizona, West Virginia, Oklahoma, California, Nevada and other American military ships at Pearl Harbor prepared for ...

She was then sunk by gunfire by the USS O'Brien, captained by Cmdr. William Outerbridge, who ironically had commanded the Ward during the Pearl Harbor attack three years earlier. The sinking was ...

Chandler, a Navy medic, is the third Pearl Harbor survivor to die in the past few weeks; only 15 others are still living.

Visit the National Park Service's website for additional information. Pearl Harbor USS Arizona Memorial & Battleship Missouri (1505 reviews) ...

Warren Upton was a 22-year-old Navy radioman assigned to the USS Utah, a demilitarized battleship moored at Pearl Harbor, when the first of two torpedoes struck the vessel the morning of Dec. 7 ...