He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he ...

Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise ...

A World War 2 veteran who survived Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima will be remembered this Saturday in Sabine Parish. “I never ...

MANY, La. – One of the last surviving sailors involved in the Pearl Harbor attack has died. Jesse Mahaffey died Saturday at ...

Jessie Mahaffey died Saturday at the age of 102. His funeral service will be Saturday at Warren Meadows Funeral Home in Many. Mahaffey was on board the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, preparing the ship ...