Editor's Note: This is the second installment of excerpts from the diary of Anthony Sirco, a gunner on the USS Arkansas during World War II.

As the Great Flood of 1927 crested, floodwaters inundated Humphrey in Arkansas and Jefferson Counties. A now iconic ...

Only two more Block IV submarines have yet to be launched, SSN 800 and 801, USS Arkansas and Utah respectively, though four more remain to be commissioned into service and gain their names, with ...

Ray Hanley is a retired health care and IT executive, historian, producer of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's "Postcard Past" feature and author of 20 Arkansas history books.