USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. When it comes to legendary ...

A veteran believed to be the world’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. Vaughn P. Drake Jr. from ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April ...

Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. ( WKYT /Gray News) - A Kentucky man known as the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old.

Vaughn Drake Jr. was born in Winchester on November 6, 1918, and served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr. was 23 years old and stationed at Kaneohe Naval Air Station in Oahu, Hawaii, when Japan launched the attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet.

Drake Jr., who was on Oahu during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has died, according to an obituary. At 106, Drake was ...