wife Beverly nee Wedding Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston during WW2 On the night of February 28, 1942, the U.S.S. Houston, Admiral Tommy Hart's former Asiatic flagship, vanished without a trace somewhere off the Northwest coast of Java. The mystery of the
Houston remained complete until the war ended and small groups of survivors were discovered in Japs prisoner of war camps, scattered from the island of Java through the Malay Peninsula, the jungles of Burma and Thailand, and northward to the Islands of Japan.Of the 1008 officers and men who manned her, approximately 350 escaped from the sinking ship, only to be captured in the jungles of Java, or as
they floundered helplessly in the sea.
Of the original survivors, only 266 lived through the ordeal of filth and brutal treatment meted out to them in Japs prisoner of war camps.
Written by Cmdr. Walter G. Winslow, USN See my virtual cemetery for his comrades
Houston remained complete until the war ended and small groups of survivors were discovered in Japs prisoner of war camps, scattered from the island of Java through the Malay Peninsula, the jungles of Burma and Thailand, and northward to the Islands of Japan.Of the 1008 officers and men who manned her, approximately 350 escaped from the sinking ship, only to be captured in the jungles of Java, or as
they floundered helplessly in the sea.
Of the original survivors, only 266 lived through the ordeal of filth and brutal treatment meted out to them in Japs prisoner of war camps.
Written by Cmdr. Walter G. Winslow, USN See my virtual cemetery for his comrades
wife Beverly nee Wedding Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston during WW2 On the night of February 28, 1942, the U.S.S. Houston, Admiral Tommy Hart's former Asiatic flagship, vanished without a trace somewhere off the Northwest coast of Java. The mystery of the
Houston remained complete until the war ended and small groups of survivors were discovered in Japs prisoner of war camps, scattered from the island of Java through the Malay Peninsula, the jungles of Burma and Thailand, and northward to the Islands of Japan.Of the 1008 officers and men who manned her, approximately 350 escaped from the sinking ship, only to be captured in the jungles of Java, or as
they floundered helplessly in the sea.
Of the original survivors, only 266 lived through the ordeal of filth and brutal treatment meted out to them in Japs prisoner of war camps.
Written by Cmdr. Walter G. Winslow, USN See my virtual cemetery for his comrades
Houston remained complete until the war ended and small groups of survivors were discovered in Japs prisoner of war camps, scattered from the island of Java through the Malay Peninsula, the jungles of Burma and Thailand, and northward to the Islands of Japan.Of the 1008 officers and men who manned her, approximately 350 escaped from the sinking ship, only to be captured in the jungles of Java, or as
they floundered helplessly in the sea.
Of the original survivors, only 266 lived through the ordeal of filth and brutal treatment meted out to them in Japs prisoner of war camps.
Written by Cmdr. Walter G. Winslow, USN See my virtual cemetery for his comrades
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