The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that paid the ultimate price.

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 ...

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.