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 was 19 when he died during Pearl Harbor. Eight five years later, he's returning home.

The USS Arizona is the famous battleship was destroyed during the Attack on Pearl Harbor - Dec 7, 1941. It was commissioned in 1916 and traveled to many place throughout the world.

John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became the namesake of a warship that served off Iwo Jima and Okinawa ...

He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he survived the sinking of another Navy ship in the Pacific. By Amanda Holpuch ...

By that same tally, only 14 veterans who survived the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack are still alive ... He swam to and boarded the USS Maryland, which was moored beside the Oklahoma.

He jumped in the water and swam to the USS Maryland after Oklahoma sank. Mahaffey shared his story with KTBS on Dec. 7, 2024. Here’s a link: North Louisiana Pearl Harbor survivor recalls the ...

MANY, Louisiana (KTBS) -- One of the last surviving sailors involved in the Pearl Harbor attack has died. Jessie Mahaffey died Saturday at the age of 102. His funeral service will be Saturday at ...

He jumped in the water and swam to the USS Maryland after Oklahoma sank. Mahaffey shared his story with KTBS on Dec. 7, 2024. Here’s a link: North Louisiana Pearl Harbor survivor recalls the ...