The WWII-era Essex-class aircraft carriers were a pivotal development that served as a historic bridge to the modern carrier ...

The news that the USS Franklin had lost 807 men at sea in a Japanese attack hit Bill Ryan like a punch in the gut. But he couldn’t help, at the same time, feeling a little thankful. After all ...

80th anniversary of kamikaze attack on USS Missouri emphasizes reconciliation – Hawaii News | The Garden Island ...

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri’s Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the ...

Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri’s Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on ...

A commemoration ceremony will be held Friday at the USS Kidd Veterans Museum to honor the 38 crew members who died in a kamikaze attack on the ship on April 11, 1945.

Eighty years ago, on April 11, 1945, the USS Missouri was involved with the Battle of Okinawa when kamikaze pilot Setsuo Ishino slammed his plane into the Mighty Mo’s side.

But Yoshioka — who as a 23-year-old bombardier dropped a torpedo that, by mistake, sunk the unarmed battleship USS Utah — rarely spoke publicly about the 15 minutes over Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 ...

The USS Bunker Hill burns after being hit by two kamikaze pilots during the Battle of Okinawa. (Navy) The following day, however, McCool and his crew were not so lucky.

Along with the USS Bunker Hill (CVN-17), also damaged in a kamikaze attack, the USS Franklin was just one of two U.S. Navy Essex-class carriers never to return to action.

A year and a half before President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, his life was put in peril on Nov. 14, 1943, all because of a torpedo inadvertently ...