Jack Beritzhoff will be 97 next month — a man with a ton of stories about his days at sea in two wars, as a businessman in San Francisco and in his home high in the hills of Marin. “It was a life of ...

Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into a burning wreck during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Already wounded from ...

World War II was a tumultuous time that saw combat in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Despite how large the planet is, a war that involved every major nation made it seem that much smaller, and ...

Alice Beck was a 23-year-old Navy nurse at a West Coast hospital in 1942 when she began caring for a sailor with a most unusual wound: a bullet in his heart. Dean Darrow survived the surgery to remove ...