[Rummyfan]

I thought the ghost ship was the USS Houston.... Also sunk in the Bandung Strait.

[abb]

correct.

https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article-View/Article/2686304/final-days-of-uss-houston-the-galloping-ghost-of-the-java-coast/

Final Days of USS Houston, the Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast

Feb. 29, 2016 | By Sam Cox (Rear Adm. USN, Ret.), Director, Naval History and Heritage Command

[Afterguard]

If you want to read a superb book on the USS Houston, read “Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR’s Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors” by James Hornfischer. Actually, I recommend all of his WWII books. They are simply unparalleled in their historical content and superbly well written.

(Just my $.02)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks all!

The herculean tasks done in the Pacific by the US services throughout 1942, using the tools then available, laid the groundwork for the final victory and shortened the war by perhaps a year. They went to war with the Navy they had, and that meant the people, and they got it done. I very much doubt that the Japanese had any idea that they’d encounter that much fight.