“The USS Utah was launched in 1911, and her purpose was to steam across the seas as a battleship,” ABC4’s Craig Wirth says. The ship protected American interests, including the new Panama Cana ...

Upton was the sole remaining crewmember of the dreadnaught battleship the USS Utah, one of the ships sunk during the attack. Upton was 105. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the ...

HONOLULU — A Navy sailor who survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has been laid to rest and reunited with his fallen shipmates inside the sunken USS Utah. Gilbert Meyer died in October of ...

Warren “Red” Upton, the last surviving veteran of the battleship USS Utah, which sank in Pearl Harbor during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack and remains there as a memorial, died Wednesday ...

Upton was a Navy radioman aboard the USS Utah when torpedoes hit the battleship and quickly capsized it, the nonprofit Pacific Historic Parks said in a social media post. In total, 58 of Upton’s ...

There are reports that its bottom was blown out by a torpedo that slid in under Vestal, around the same time that a torpedo fatally struck USS Utah, an older battleship used for anti-aircraft ...