To: rlmorel
Maybe one day someone will write a screenplay based upon the CA-30 USS Houston. Her story is in the highest degree tragic. Which is also the title of a pretty good book related in part the circumstances of her end. Bascially she and her entire brave crew were part of a sacrifice DC made on the alter of geopolitics.
20 posted on
06/04/2023 7:06:19 AM PDT by
skeeter
To: skeeter
My dad's ship passing the Houston.
The USS Marblehead (CL-12) passes the heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) in Tjilitjap, Java, on the morning of 6 February 1942.
40 posted on
06/04/2023 8:23:48 AM PDT by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
To: skeeter
Yes… I just recently finished reading the book “Ship of Ghosts”, another work by the now departed James Horne Fisher, someone I have come to regard as a preeminent naval historian.
56 posted on
06/04/2023 9:23:55 AM PDT by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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