Operation Hailstone, the two-day carrier assault launched 82 years ago this week, demolished Japan's largest overseas naval installation and sent more than 40 ships beneath the waves.
Their names sound like a chemistry exam: USS Antimony, USS Calcium, USS Hydrogen - three concrete barges that spent World War ...
World War II veterans Robert Miller and Willard Smith found each other in the same assisted living facility 82 years after fighting in the Battle of Luzon.