MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) - Veterans who served aboard the USS Laffey gathered on the fantail of the ship at Patriot’s Point Tuesday to honor the 32 shipmates killed during a Japanese kamikaze attack ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Veterans of the USS Laffey Association will host a memorial service onboard the USS Laffey to remember the 32 sailors who died while serving aboard the warship during a ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — On April 16, 1945, the U.S.S. Laffey was under attack from the Japanese near the Pacific Island of Okinawa. That battle, in the final year of World War II, resulted in ...

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — People gathered here USS Laffey on Tuesday, April 16 to commemorate 32 lives lost during a kamikaze attack just five months before the end of WW2. The USS LAFFEY (DD-724) ...

On Monday, Oct. 5, at 10 a.m., veterans of the historic Navy destroyer USS Laffey will stream their annual memorial service live on the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum Facebook page. The ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) –Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum invites the community to join them Friday, July 6 at 9:30 a.m. as museum staff and the U.S. Navy welcome a World War II veteran back ...

Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum will be hosting two days of special programming to honor the legacy of the USS Laffey, the vessel more popularly known as “The Ship That Would Not Die.” During ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) - The USS Yorktown and USS Laffey are fighting a new battle and need help to be named the best museum ships in the world. The two ships docked at the Patriots Point Naval & ...

POINT PLEASANT - There is a photograph in Bill Kelly’s room in the Claremont Center nursing home. It’s of him, wearing a Manasquan High School football uniform, on Thanksgiving 1942. “I left high ...

Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang Productions has launched development on a World War II movie about the USS Laffey, which survived an intense kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. The ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina (Reuters) - The Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, a popular tourist spot in South Carolina's Charleston Harbour, is facing the same challenge as other U.S. Navy ...