From the 1890s through the World War II, battleships ruled the waves. These steel leviathans projected naval power across all the world’s seas, clashing with other ships or bombarding enemy forces onshore with their giant guns. However, by the 1940s, battleships were becoming obsolete. While some other classes of warships built for World War II are…
World War II was a tumultuous time that saw combat in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Despite how large the planet is, a war that involved every major nation made it seem that much smaller, and no ship was safe — not even those still docked, as evidenced by the Japanese attack on December…
A Navy fireman who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been identified 84 years later, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Bowden enlisted in the military in 1939, according to a newspaper clipping shared by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was from New Bern, North Carolina. Bowden…
A grand jury has indicted two civilian workers on charges they caused the Navy to provide the Hawaii Department of Health with false information about jet fuel that spilled from a Pearl Harbor storage facility before it later seeped into drinking water and sickened 6,000 people over Thanksgiving in 2021. The indictments are the first…