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To: WhiskeyX
Navy divers from the U.S. and Indonesia confirmed that a sunken vessel in the Java Sea is the World War II wreck of the USS Houston, a cruiser sunk by the Japanese that serves as the final resting place for about 700 sailors and Marines, officials announced Monday

It's too bad the divers didn't take any pictures...

21 posted on 08/23/2014 7:45:39 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper

I believe she was a victim of Japanese Long Lance Torpedoes.


23 posted on 08/23/2014 11:03:23 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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