Tragically, Miller died 17 months later, when a Japanese submarine sank the escort carrier USS Liscome Bay during an invasion of the Gilbert Islands. Nearly 650 of the more than 900 sailors on ...

Miller was killed in action two years later, in November 1943, when a Japanese torpedo sunk his ship, the USS Liscome Bay, in the Pacific Ocean. Only 272 of some 900 crew members survived the ...

Nearly two years later, at 24, he was killed with more than 600 other men when the escort carrier USS Liscome Bay was torpedoed and sunk on Nov. 24, 1943. His body was not recovered. Legend has it ...

Serving for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean during World War II after enlisting in 1942, Schallock narrowly escaped harm when the neighboring aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a ...

Retelas, who works in marketing at Menlo College, was inspired by his grandfather’s military journals and began volunteering at the USS Hornet CV-12 museum in Alameda. The aircraft carrier ...

The strike group, which includes the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman ... following a port call at Naval Support Activity Souda Bay on the Greek island of Crete. The Feb. 12 collision left ...

The three-day weekend is packed with events all over the Bay Area, whether you hope to kick off the season or to honor and remember the fallen heroes. We've compiled a list of some of these events ...

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Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75 ... and a jet fell overboard while getting towed in the hangar bay. A third jet went overboard earlier this month after a failed landing ...

LAKE HAVASU – A Bay Area teenager drowned in Lake Havasu near Copper Canyon on Saturday, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said. The department's Colorado River Station responded to ...

Though the sunny skies were perfect for one of San Francisco’s biggest events of the year, some participants at the annual Bay to Breakers were left without their highly anticipated badges of honor.

The Norfolk-based USS Gravely last week seized more than 850 pounds of narcotics while in the Caribbean Sea. The ship’s search and seizure team had boarded a “vessel of interest” on May 25 ...