PEARL HARBOR -- A Pearl Harbor survivor was laid to rest during an ash scattering ceremony at the USS Utah Memorial on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam July 24. Family members of Yeoman 1st Class ...

Claud Koch told most everyone – his children, his buddies at the American Legion – the exact same story about his experience at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked by the Japanese. “He and the crew on ...

December 7 marked the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, “the day that will live in infamy.” Many New Haven residents were serving in all branches of the service at Pearl Harbor on that ...

William Everett "wanted to be in the action," and so he persuaded his parents to let him join the Navy even though he was only 17 in 1945. Everett, 80, served on the hospital ship USS Solace, then on ...

Original crew members of the USS Solace, which was commissioned as a hospital ship in August 1941, will meet in Lubbock Wednesday through Friday to see this area's war memorials and to recall some of ...

Father William "Bill" Wagner, USS Solace, AH-5. In October, 2002, I met with Father Bill Wagner on the deck of the USS Wisconsin BB-64, at the time berthed at Norfolk, Virginia. The Wisconsin has been ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series on World War II veterans in Sandusky County. OLD FORT - Aboard the USS Solace, as she tended to young men wounded in Okinawa — the Pacific Theater’s ...

Frank L. Stebbins was on the signal bridge of the USS Solace 60 years ago this morning, waiting for the first boat to take sailors ashore for a day’s liberty, when he heard the first explosion. The ...

John Leach, right, tells how he ran up to the deck of the battleship USS California on Dec. 7, 1941, without putting on his pants. Harold Lacy, left, was on the USS Tennessee. o The national Pearl ...

Retired York orthopedic and hand surgeon Dr. Joe Danyo will remember his sister this week. She was a nurse at Pearl Harbor. On Wednesday, Dec. 7 – the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl ...