When I was 9 years old, Mom and Dad took me to visit the battleship U.S.S. Alabama. That visit to the “Lucky A” made quite the impression on me. Since then, I’ve read a lot about battleships in ...

Theirs is a mostly-forgotten battle from World War II, a David vs. Goliath fight where they were David. And David won. Now, 70 years later, veterans of the Battle Off Samar in the Philippines are ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: For only the second time in history, enemy battleships had managed to close within gun-range of aircraft carriers. But in the Battle of Samar, nothing went as ...

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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - American heroes reunite at a special event on the USS Midway Museum. Forty-nine surviving veterans were honored for their service on the anniversary of the Battle off Samar. It ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But that victory was paid for with extraordinary acts of sacrifice, with two escort carriers, two destroyers and destroyer escort consigned to the deep waters of the ...