On March 19, 1945, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, after enduring a fierce Japanese assault, was a smoldering wreck. The ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Monongalia County man says all he could do was his job when the aircraft carrier he was on, the USS Franklin, was attacked near the Japanese mainland more than 70 years ago ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa.- WWII veterans and survivors of the USS Franklin attack in March of 1945 are together for their annual reunion. This year they are holding it in Gettysburg. When the USS Franklin CV-13 ...

MILWAUKEE -- It was one of the greatest naval disasters in history. Many of those who survived are no longer with us, but those that were on board the USS Franklin and lived to tell about it, were in ...

On the decks of the USS Franklin 75 years ago on Sunday morning, March 19, 1945, during World War II were five bombers, 14 torpedo bombers and 12 fighters. Those aircraft were “carrying 36,000 gallons ...

On this day in 1945, during World War II, 724 sailors were killed and 265 wounded when a Japanese plane dropped two armor-piercing bombs on the USS Franklin. According to the U.S. Navy, the Franklin ...

More than 800 sailors died in the catastrophic 1945 attack on the USS Franklin, leaving the ship listing in the water. The survivors kept the ship afloat, and made it back to port. NBC’s Brian ...

As World War II veterans Walter Gallagher and John Hensel walked a wreath honoring USS Franklin attack victims to the duck pond at Veterans Memorial Park on Wednesday, a sea of close to 100 people ...

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. -- Two dozen surviving veterans from the World War II aircraft carrier USS Franklin gathered on Friday, probably for the last time, to honor and remember one of the most remarkable ...

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Albert Cole is nowhere to be found on any published roster of the USS Franklin. He can't explain why, other than the fact that he wasn't aboard the aircraft carrier when it was commissioned in early ...