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 March 19, 1945, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, after enduring a fierce Japanese assault, was a smoldering wreck. The ship’s captain, a fierce disciplinarian hated by many of his men, studied ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...