PARKERSBURG — Flashback to May 17, 1987. It is Sunday. The Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by two Iraqi Exocet missiles at 9:12 p.m. while on patrols during the ...

Decades have passed since an Iraqi jet carrying two Exocet missiles struck the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Stark (FFG-31), killing thirty-seven U.S. Navy personnel and injuring nearly ...

Surviving personnel managed to keep USS Stark afloat and distress calls were answered by USS Waddell and USS Conyngham. According to the Pentagon, an Iranian helicopter also aided in the incident ...

USS Stark shipmates reflect on attack 2 men reunite at Mayport memorial service, 32 years after deadly incident in Persian Gulf. Matt Soergel. [email protected].

Officers aboard the American frigate Stark failed to execute a standard air-defense maneuver when it was attacked on May 17 by an Iraqi jet in the Persian Gulf, according to government officials fa… ...

Armed with French missile systems and piloted under false civilian cover, Iraq’s Falcon 50 carried out a fatal strike on the USS Stark in international waters. This film details the aircraft’s ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It has now been 38 years since 37 sailors were killed in an attack on the Mayport-based USS Stark in 1987. The US Navy says the ship was on patrol in the Arabian Gulf when ...

The Stark incident was doubly troubling in that one of the reasons offered up by the Iraqis for firing on the US ship was that the pilot thought it was an Iranian oil tanker, a large target, and a ...

Hard to believe, but Battleland began covering this terrible story 25 years ago today: 28 KILLED ON U.S. FRIGATE USS STARK — DIDN’T USE DEFENSES — ‘DON’T KNOW WHY,’ NAVY OFFICIAL SAYS ...

The USS Stark was escorted to Bahrain for repairs before returning to port in Florida. It returned to the Middle East in the 1990s before being decommissioned in 1997. -- Blake Stilwell can be ...

Naval Station Mayport says the USS Stark was decommissioned at Mayport in 1999, 12 years after the attack in the Arabian Gulf. The base holds memorials honoring the lives of the sailors every ...