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Deputy Chief of Mission (Jakarta, Indonesia) Kristen Bauer (top left), Capt. Richard Stacpoole (top right), and Marine Lt. Col. Miguel Avila pass a wreath to sailors assigned to Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One, during a wreath-laying ceremony for the sunken Navy vessel USS Houston.

US Navy divers to visit wreck of USS Houston in Indonesia[FR]

Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston; WWII/Cold War books on BookTV/C-Span2 Jan13/14[FR]

Documentaries salute Houston's WWII contributions[FR]

1 posted on 08/19/2014 3:21:06 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

Just as an aside, do people always have to play with their phones?


2 posted on 08/19/2014 3:30:53 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Theoria

Leave it to NRrrrr.
Active seepage. It’s still polluting.
More greenhouse out gassing.


3 posted on 08/19/2014 3:35:13 PM PDT by glyptol
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; henkster; Tax-chick

WWII ping.


4 posted on 08/19/2014 3:35:56 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Theoria
Houston and HMAS Perth without destroyer escort were making a last-ditch, if not suicidal, effort to stop the Japanese landings on Java, near Jakarta. Her skipper was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and the ship was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation.

At the outbreak of WWII she was the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, home ported at Cavite in the Philippines.

6 posted on 08/19/2014 3:42:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Theoria; henkster

I’m trying to think of anybody, with the wherewithal and no regard for Infidel graves sites, who might want to take part in “unauthorized recovery of unexploded ordinance” in that area; any ideas? /sarc


8 posted on 08/19/2014 4:25:09 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Theoria

15 posted on 08/19/2014 5:00:25 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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