Here’s What You Need to Know: The USS Maryland helped the U.S. advance across the Pacific and roll back the Japanese Empire. Not every battleship attacked at Pearl Harbor was badly damaged. USS ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Later in the war, as Japan became more desperate, Maryland could perform the role she was built to play. But like many of the other battleships of the period, she was ...
The muffled sounds Floyd Welch heard while below the decks of the USS Maryland on Dec. 7, 1941, were a mystery, he said. Welch, an electrician’s mate, and fellow shipmates milled around exchanging ...
Lawrence veteran Vincent Muirhead, a retired naval commander, was 22 years old when he was stationed on the USS Maryland during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Muirhead remembers planning ...
The bell of the USS Maryland has sat in Annapolis for nearly 60 years, the last piece of a ship sold for scrap metal. But the bell, and the ship on which it sailed, spent much of the second World War ...
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. — A funeral is being held in Maryland for a sailor killed last month when the U.S. Navy destroyer he was on collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan. Television station ...