About 125 Military Sealift Command civil service mariners on the ship assigned a range of tasks from kitchen duty to cleaning ...

Shark attacks are extremely rare. But they do occasionally happen, and some species are more likely to be behind the kill ...

May 8 was the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day commemorating Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of ...

Event Details The ceremony will honor Earl Procai, Bugler Second Class, who was one of nine USS Indianapolis crew members killed in ... the last Hoosier Hero's name is honored.

After months away at sea, some crew members from the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Indianapolis are back home at the Naval Station Mayport — just in time for Christmas. Read full ...

(Photo from a Facebook post by Michael Emery, a member of the association of families of USS Indianapolis crew) IMABARI, Ehime -- A memorial service for crew of the U.S. Navy's USS Indianapolis ...

Despite being hit by a kamikaze during the Battle of Okinawa, the crew’s ... bearing its name, the USS Portland served alongside its infamous sister ship, the USS Indianapolis — known for ...

“He was loved by so many here and by other family members of USS Indianapolis survivors. Our greatest thing we got to do for him was take him to the reunion earlier this year to meet with his ...

JEFFERSON CITY − Members of the ... Navy ship to bear its name.” Cook said his crew was overdue for a namesake visit because of COVID-19. He said once the USS Jefferson City Submarine Council ...

FREDERICKSBURG — The sinking of the USS Indianapolis by two torpedoes ... Henry explained that although a list of the crew members’ names exists, there are no known photos of many of them.

On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific and 879 men were lost at sea (316 crew members survived). Nine other Indianapolis sailors had been killed March 31 ...

According to the official USS Indianapolis Facebook page, Celaya joined the Navy at 17 years old, boarding the ship in 1944. At the time, he was one of the youngest crew members to survive. After the ...