DDH - USS Washington

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Nov 15, 2022 · 38m

Back in August when we left the story, the US Navy had just suffered its worst ever blue water defeat. More than a thousand Allied sailors were dead. Four Heavy Cruisers had been lost, with a fifth disabled. The Navy, along with the American public, had been stunned by the loss, less than a year after the disaster at Pearl Harbor.

Just three months later, on the night of November 13/14, 1942, the Navy once again was shocked when a Japanese submarine torpedoed one of the heavily damaged survivors of yet another pitched night battle off of Guadalcanal, the USS Juneau. Of her crew of six hundred…