When it comes to combat ships, aircraft carriers and battleships get all the attention. I am certainly guilty of this. I mean, I've toured battleships from the Pacific to the, well, other side of the ...
On the night of August 4, 1964, the USS Turner Joy patrolled the tense waters of the Gulf of Tonkin as its radar crew spotted suspicious blips on their screens. Seaman Dennis Plzak, convinced they ...
BREMERTON — Every two weeks this past year, John Hanson journeyed to the USS Turner Joy museum ship gift shop to pick up the bills and check for what is always a full voicemail box. The question they ...
On the night of August 4, 1964, USS Turner Joy moved through the dark waters of the Gulf of Tonkin when radar screens suddenly lit up with possible enemy contacts. Seaman Dennis Plzak and the crew ...
BREMERTON — Tayden and Crixus Dengler never met their legendary grandfather, a Navy pilot captured as a prisoner of war in Laos who escaped his captors. But at a ceremony aboard the USS Turner Joy on ...