Mahaffey was later assigned to the cruiser USS Northampton, and he once again cheated death when it was sunk Nov. 30, 1942, during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands. The ...

Jesse Alton Mahaffey, a resident of Many, Louisiana, survived the attack on Pearl Harbor while serving on the USS Oklahoma, and later the sinking of the USS Northampton, before passing away at the age ...