Last weekend, the USS Jeremiah Denton was christened in honor of the Vietnam War hero who has local family ties.

On Saturday, June 28, a ship bearing the name of a U.S. Navy hero and Gulf Coast native is celebrating its first dive into ...

A commendation from President Ronald Reagan, a rosary, a Navy Cross and more were added to the box, cementing the legacy of ...

On Saturday in Pascagoula, it was a day of celebration as Ingalls Shipbuilding christened a new guided missile destroyer ...

HII (NYSE: HII) christened today the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), the third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ...

Jeremiah Denton, the downed Navy pilot who was paraded before television cameras by the Viet Cong and confirmed U.S. suspicions of prisoner maltreatment during the Vietnam War by blinking out the ...

Former Alabama Sen. Jeremiah Denton, who survived 7½ years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the U.S. military to conditions there when he blinked the word "torture" in Morse code ...

Jeremiah Denton, retired admiral, former Senator and heroic POW, to be buried in Arlington Tuesday Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

Admiral Jeremiah Denton is a hero not because he was politician, but like all the other men and women of the Armed Forces, because he defended the ideals set forth with America's independence.

Jeremiah Denton, the Vietnam War POW who has died at age 89, uttered one of the great statements of defiance in American history. In 1965, he was shot down in his A-6 during a bombing run over ...

HII christened the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), the third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division. The ship’s name honors former ...

At Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, the soon-to-be U.S.S. Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) is ready for its christening ceremony. Denton was a POW in Vietnam and also served as a United States senator ...