At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded ... Recent research suggests that the explosion may have been an accident, involving a spontaneous combustion fire in the ...

The U.S. forces were determined to sink Yamato, and from the first attack at 12:37 to the final crippling explosion at 14:23, the battleship was hit by at least 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs.

Lt. Cmdr. Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died April 1 at his home in Grass Valley, Calif.