Typically, battleships would accompany Essex-class ... USS Maine (BB-69), USS New Hampshire (BB-70), and the USS Louisiana (BB-71). These vessels would have been constructed in Philadelphia ...

While the USS Kidd remains at a Houma shipyard for much-needed repairs, the annual ceremony that honors those who died on the ship in a kamikaze attack on April 11, 1945, will carry on Friday in ...

Born in Florien, Louisiana, he and a group of friends ... he survived the sinking of another battleship, the USS Northampton in the Battle Tassafaronga on November 30, 1942 when it was struck ...