Lyons was only 18 years old on June, 6, 1944. The North Quincy native, now 88, fittingly spent D-Day on the USS Quincy – a ship built in his home city. From an engine room, he helped navigate ...

Two generations of ships built at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy fought side-by-side in the naval bombardment that was part of the D-Day invasion. The guns of the USS Nevada, the battleship ...

Some people remember the USS Quincy as a captured, renamed German cargo ship. Others think of it as the heavy cruiser sunk by the Japanese off Guadalcanal, and some believe it was an instrumental ...