The USS Sterett incident in the Viet Nam War is a bit like this. The incident was given very short shrift, the official reports were so concise as to be deceptive, the incident was given the official memory hole treatment and there has never been a book length treatment of what was the most heroic surface engagement of the war. The reason is that Soviet and possibly CCF forces had carefully orchestrated the engagement to collect data on real time US defensive maritime capabilities against east bloc air, maritime and ground to sea systems.