Eighty-three years ago Saturday, 106 crewmen aboard the USS West Virginia lost their lives after the battleship was struck by at least seven torpedoes and two bombs from Japanese aircraft and sank to ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A sailor killed serving on board the USS West Virginia during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor will be laid to rest on the same day a tribute will take place at the ship’s mast.

ARCOLA — On Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. On board the battleship USS West Virginia, which ...

Eighty-two years ago today, Charles H. Morgan Jr., then 16, accompanied his father on an early morning walk near the Pearl Harbor shoreline when Japanese aircraft began bombing and strafing nearby ...

Two Erie sailors reported by the Erie Daily Times as possible casualties at Pearl Harbor survived the Japanese attack. Jack Mook, of Chestnut Street, was serving aboard the USS Oglala on Dec. 7, 1941.

On Dec. 7, 1941, a surprise attack at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii would officially begin the United States' involvement in World War II. That day, which President Franklin Roosevelt would ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia University community joined together outside of Oglebay Hall on a cold Friday morning to pay their respects to those who died during the attack on ...

PRINCETON — An historic relic representing the Mountain State's link to a pivotal moment in both American and world history arrived Thursday at the Those Who Served War Museum in Mercer County. The ...

When torpedoes struck his battleship, Neil Frye was just 20 years old — a country boy halfway around the world from his tiny hometown of Vass, North Carolina, caught off-guard on an infamous day. He ...

Designed during the First World War, the U.S. Navy’s Colorado-class battleships were the last of its kind completed pre-Washington Naval Treaty. Following the war, the major Allied powers penned an ...