Congress did so, bringing the country into World War II. Upton died at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, about a 20-minute drive southwest of San Jose, according to Kathleen Farley, the ...

in an attack that propelled the U.S. into World War II. Upton told The Associated Press in 2020 that he had been getting ready to shave when he felt the first torpedo hit the Utah. He recalled ...

She died when Mr. Upton was 17. Mr. Upton joined the Navy after graduating high school. Skilled in Morse code, he served until the end of World War II in 1945 and then settled in the San Francisco ...

The Utah, a battleship, was moored at Pearl Harbor when Japanese planes began bombing the Hawaii naval base in the early hours of Dec. 7, 1941, in an attack that propelled the U.S. into World War II.