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Sailor who survived 1941 Pearl Harbor attack in battleship’s belly dies at age 103
William Henry Pratt, who survived both the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of dangerous patrols aboard a ...
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‘It feels very lonely’: 80 years after D-Day, only 2 USS Nevada crew members remain
Dick Ramsey was on board the USS Nevada off the coast of France during the Allied invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944 — 2½ years after the battleship nearly sank in shallow water at Pearl Harbor ...
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There’s just one USS Nevada veteran left. His mission is to keep the ship’s memory alive
There’s a painting of the ship, the USS Nevada, a piece of the Nevada’s teakwood deck, a photo of Ramsey as a young man in uniform, a collection of medals. Ramsey turned 101 on Oct. 31 ...
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The Unstoppable Force of the Battleship USS Nevada...
On May 11th 2020, an important historical discovery concerning the United States’ military history was announced that went largely unnoticed by the wider public because of the Covid-19 pandemic that ...