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2 allied cruisers charged 56 Japanese ships in one of the war’s most hopeless fights

On the night of February 28 to March 1, 1942, USS Houston and HMAS Perth tried to escape through Sunda Strait after the Allied collapse in the Dutch East Indies. Instead, they ran directly into the ...
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New Survey: USS Houston Wreck ‘Largely Intact,’ HMAS Perth Status Inconclusive

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 warship HMAS Perth is less clear, according to ...