Sometimes known as the “Battleship That Wasn’t There,” the USS Colorado (BB-45) was one of the nine active battleships serving in the Pacific Fleet on December 7, 1941. While eight of those behemoths ...
PIERCE, CO — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that 26-year-old Navy Water Tender 1 st Class Milo E. Phillips of Pierce, Colorado, killed during World War II, was accounted for on ...
A lifesized replica of World War II-era battleship USS Colorado that’s taking shape on the banks of Brighton’s Mann-Nyholt Lake will never see naval service, but it’s already received honors from the ...