Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...

The remains of a North Carolina sailor from World War II have been accounted for, the U.S. Navy said Friday. U.S. Navy Mess ...

Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly ...

The remains of a World War II sailor who was killed at Pearl Harbor while serving on the USS West Virginia will be returning ...

Chief Warrant Officer John Connolly was previously buried as an Unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii until his remains were positively identified decades later and moved ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

At that point, Black sailors were allowed only to serve ... "And it's important to understand that the Navy at the time, prior to World War II, was largely a southern outfit," Knoblock said.