Wreck of USS Houston Located

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Shelldrake

August 20, 2014, 01:11:04 PM
The location of the wreck of the USS Houston, sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait, has been verified by American and Indonesian divers.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/18/sunken-vessel-is-world-war-ii-era-uss-houston-officials-say/
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August 28, 2014, 05:56:41 PM
A bit more info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sunda_Strait

It is a bit embarrassing for the Japanese sinking five of their own ships, but it was a night battle so IFF must have been pretty chaotic. It sounds a pretty epic surface action though, and at a time when there weren't all that many surface actions.
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August 29, 2014, 11:31:58 PM
fwiw most of those IJN destroyer names are currently in use with IJN JSDNF Aegis destroyers.
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