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More than 90 ships were anchored at Pearl Harbor. The primary targets were the eight battleships in Battleship Row. The USS West Virginia, left, was one of the battleships to sink during the attack.
U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil D. Frye of Vass, NC killed aboard USS West Virginia during Pearl Harbor attack. (Photo: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) The ship sank to the bottom of ...
Binkney shared information about the USS West Virginia, which sank in the attack ... said his uncle was at Pearl Harbor and survived the attack. Marine Corps League Detachment 1087 member Jon ...
Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. USS Tennessee (BB-43 ...
6:10 a.m. – Imperial Japanese Navy Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who was the airborne commander in charge of the Pearl Harbor attack ... the battleship USS West Virginia is hit by seven torpedoes ...
Kathie Svoboda has never met her Uncle William, but a new relationship has been forged 83 years after his death. The Navy serviceman, killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was identified ...
He had joined up at 19, signing on as a mess attendant in a segregated branch of the Navy, serving aboard the USS West Virginia, which carried him all the way to Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese ...