This past Saturday, December 7, 2024, marked the eighty-third anniversary of the “date which will live in infamy,” the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) surprise attack on the U.S. Navy (USN) base at ...
The Ward was a Wickes-class destroyer, named for Commander James Harmon Ward, the first U.S. Navy officer to be KIA during the American Civil War. She was laid down on May 15, 1918, launched on June 1 ...