The then 19-year-old watched the first bombs drop on the harbor while stationed aboard the Dobbin-class destroyer tender USS ...
Freeman K. Johnson was expecting only a cake for his 105th birthday celebration Wednesday in Hyannis. But others had a ...
He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he ...
A World War II Navy veteran from Cape Cod and the oldest surviving veteran of Pearl Harbor was honored Wednesday at his 105th ...
Neil Frye was a 20-year-old mess attendant from Vass, N.C., aboard the USS West Virginia when a Japanese torpedo sank it in ...
Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, died March 1 in Alexandria, La. He was 102.
A big crowd gathered at the Barnstable Adult Community Center to honor Navy veteran Freeman Johnson, who celebrated his 105th ...
MANY, Louisiana (KTBS) — One of the last surviving sailors involved in the Pearl Harbor attack has died. Jesse Mahaffey died Saturday at the age of 102. His funeral service will be Saturday at ...
Chief Warrant Officer John Gaynor Connolly served aboard the USS Oklahoma, which capsized during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
But 35 men recovered from the wreck would go unnamed. The drive to identify Pearl Harbor casualties came largely from one of its survivors, Ray Emory, a Navy gunner who survived the attack ...