Fresh off locating the wreck of the USS Lexington, Paul Allen's deep water exploration team has located the remains of the USS Juneau.
The Atlanta-class anti-aircraft cruiser Juneau was lost to a Japanese submarine attack in the fighting around Guadalcanal in 1942. Personnel losses were heavy and included the five Sullivans brothers who had enlisted together on the condition that they could fight in the same unit.
This unprecedented loss of five siblings was the driving force behind the popular movie "Saving Private Ryan" which deals with the attempt to locate and remove from combat the last remaining male member of a fictional family.
As with all war graves, the site will remain undisturbed.
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in Clark but this was guns, rifles, fishing, bow and arrows. they would play you for muscrat hides.
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Lincoln's letter was read by the actor playing George Marshall in the Saving Private Ryan movie:
Washington, 21st November, 1864.
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln.
Mrs. Bixby.
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That is incredible. Thanks for sharing that.
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I've told the story before about how I read an account by one of the Juneau's survivors when I was a kid...and how that tale compelled me to NOT join the Marines or the Navy when I grew older.
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that was real nice read. interesting take. did it say how long after the incident the interview was conducted?
I don't think so. The date of publication is 1956. I probably read the story somewhere in the mid-to-late 60's. We had a whole series of hardcover American Heritage books when I was a kid...maybe ten or twelve volumes. From pre-Revolution Colonial America to the earliest days of the space program. Wish I still had them.
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Wow, that was intense! Thanks for posting it.