The submarine is the fifth Navy vessel to bear the name Idaho. The first was a wooden-hulled storeship commissioned in 1866.
Three fighters. One war. From the stubby F4F Wildcat that held the line in 1942, to the deadly F6F Hellcat that crushed the Zero, and finally the lightning-fast F8F Bearcat that arrived just as the ...
With Schab's passing, there remain only about a dozen survivors of the surprise attack, which killed just over 2,400 troops ...