Yet, a thousand young men gathered in Houston on Memorial Day 1942 to be sworn into the Navy. Their intent was to take the place of those who were lost when the cruiser USS Houston and its sister ...

The USS Houston visits during a stop in its namesake city in the 1930s. It later saw service in World War II, ending with its sinking in 1942.

Articfacts from USS Houston recovered by a recreational diver. Naval HIstory and Heritage Command Photo. The U.S. Navy’s recognition of a 72-year-old war grave began when an Australian scuba ...

Sixty years ago two brothers perished with 698 other sailors aboard the USS Houston off the coast of Java as the heavy cruiser charged the Japanese fleet during World War II. The funeral services ...

USS Houston, was officially confirmed by the U.S. Navy. The ship was sunk alongside an Australian ship, the Perth, in a battle with the Japanese in the Java Sea in 1942.

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 ...

USS Houston (CA-30) in 1934. US Navy Photo. A new sonar survey has found the World War II wreck of cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) mostly undisturbed, while the status of nearby wreck of Australian ...

The USS Houston, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, was decommissioned Friday during a ceremony at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, U.S. Navy officials stated in a press release.

Ernie Manning was among several young men in his class at Dickson City High School to enlist in the Navy during World War II. “I was a nutty kid, didn’t have any brains. We were, I don&… ...

SINGAPORE -- In a training evolution to be conducted as part of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2014 exercise series, U.S. Navy divers, assisted by personnel from the ...

The USS Houston (CA-30), the second of four USS Houstons, fought during World War II in the 1942 Battle of Sunda Strait. When the USS Houston and the HMAS Perth discovered the Japanese fleet on ...

A last of his kind veteran from the USS Houston 01:53. FOREST LAKE, Minn. — Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II, less than 1%, or 120,000, are still with us today ...