Vaughn Drake Jr. was a 23-year-old Army engineer working in Oahu when Japanese forces attacked the American base at Pearl ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who at 106 was believed to be the oldest surviving veteran of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on ...

The USS Shiloh (CG 67) returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii on Friday after a three-month deployment ...

Army headquarters was on the other side of the island, as was the Navy base at Pearl Harbor, the most important American base in the Pacific. But between the privates and Alaska, 2,000 miles away ...

Vaughn Drake Jr. of Lexington, Kentucky, was 23 years old when he served as an Army engineer at Pearl Harbor more than 80 years ago.

After more than eight decades, a Vass man killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 has come home. Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Frye was aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia on ...

U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil D. Frye is finally home from Pearl Harbor and was laid to rest last week in North ...

U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil D. Frye, of Vass, North Carolina, was killed when his ship, the USS West Virginia, ...

The island is owned by the U.S. Navy and is managed by Naval Base Coronado. “It just seems to me like that would be a security breach,” said Bob Lawrence, a reporter who covered the military ...