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 ...

Survivors and family members of the crew of the USS Houston, which was destroyed by Japanese forces in World War II, gathered in Sam Houston Park for the 70th anniversary of the ship's destruction ...

This week, there are events all over Houston to remember the well-known ship that sunk. [PHOTOS: 75th anniversary of USS Houston's sinking] There are only four survivors left, all over 90 years ...

The ship carried 1,068 crewmen, but ... They'll join shipmates' relatives Saturday at the monument in downtown Houston's Sam Houston Park. The Japanese sank the USS Houston and the Australian ...

PORTLAND — Mark Manzer sat aboard the nuclear submarine USS Sam Houston as it glided through the Pacific Ocean’s depths. ... leaving Manzer just enough space to stand.

In 1934, the cruiser USS Houston passes through the Panama Canal with President Franklin D. Roosevelt standing on the ship's second level.

Robert Hanley says he's been thinking about the men lost on the USS Houston for the last 82 years. The 102-year-old was just 20 when his ship was sunk by the Japanese Navy.

HOUSTON . Seventy years ago Thursday, a Japanese fleet sunk the ship off the coast of Java. The ship carried 1,068 crewmen, but only 291 sailors and Marines survived both the attack and being ...