Seventy years ago Thursday, a Japanese fleet sunk the ship off the coast of Java. The ship carried 1,068 crewmen, but only 291 sailors and Marines survived both the attack and being prisoners of war.
Ever since her commissioning in 1982, the nuclear submarine USS Houston has been spreading Space City’s good name across the oceans. Why, even its hull number — 713 — is as Houston as you can get. The ...
FOREST LAKE, Minn. — Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II, less than 1%, or 120,000, are still with us today. Robert Hanley says he's been thinking about the men lost on ...
ST. ANSGAR | Fewer than 300 sailors and Marines survived the Japanese attack on the USS Houston when it was sunk in the Java Sea during World War II and the harrowing years as prisoners of war that ...
FOREST LAKE, Minn. (WCCO)— Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II, less than 1%, or 120,000, are still with us today. Robert Hanley says he’s been thinking about the men lost ...