Grant “Gully” Gullickson, a 95-year-old WWII veteran featured in The Virginian-Pilot series “The Lucky Few,” died Wednesday in Virginia Beach. Gullickson was chief machinist mate aboard the destroyer ...

Traditionally, the Navy christens destroyers with the names of distinguished admirals like Arleigh Burke and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country like Lt. Cmdr. John C ...

TAYLOR, N.D. -- Grant G. Gullickson says if it hadn't been for his farm-ranch background in Stark County, N.D., he might not have achieved the success he had in the U.S. Navy, and he might not have ...

Today s column is about an old friend I met in 1950 when we were at the state s fledgling TV station, WNHC, channel 6. I was the station s first news editor, and he was a crackerjack radio and TV ...

The mystery of how the skeleton of a Navy destroyer ended up wasting away for decades in Napa River muck near American Canyon is solved. Napa resident Bill Clarke, age 95, knows the story of the USS ...