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Vaughn Drake Jr. was a 23-year-old Army engineer working in Oahu when Japanese forces attacked the American base at Pearl ...
Vaughn Drake Jr. of Lexington, Kentucky, was 23 years old when he served as an Army engineer at Pearl Harbor more than 80 ...
After more than 80 years, a Black soldier killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor was finally laid to rest last week in his ...
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...
Hoke County native Petty Officer Neil Frye was lost when the USS West Virginia was sunk by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941.
Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...
HOKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- A decorated North Carolinian, who was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, was laid to rest with full military honors. The service was held on April 3--which is his ...
The 1st Air Fleet of Japan — known as Kido Butai — had not just assaulted the port at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, it had simultaneously hit every major airfield across the breadth of Oahu ...
Frye-Davis said he was always known as her uncle who died at Pearl Harbor. The family never forgot him, she said. She said that since several other family members served in the military ...
Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Black sailor is buried with military honors this week. For his family, it's long awaited closure.