As Houstonians pause this weekend to honor those who have faithfully served our country, I hope they will take a measure of pride in what happened 75 years ago on another Memorial Day in this city.

Having severely lost the Battle of the Java Sea, the remaining Allied fleet prepared to leave Java behind and sail to ...

The USS Houston was listing and ablaze when radioman David Flynn heard a chilling order come over the public address system: "Hear this: All hands abandon ship!" "At that announcement you sort of ...

The USS Houston (CA-30), the second of four USS Houstons, fought during World War II in the 1942 Battle of Sunda Strait. When the USS Houston and the HMAS Perth discovered the Japanese fleet on the ...

As many as a hundred people are expected at Sam Houston Park today for the 11th annual memorial service to honor the crew of the USS Houston, which sank in the Pacific early in World War Two. Houston ...

Houston's namesake ship spent more than three decades prowling the deep before it was officially put out to pasture at a Navy base near Seattle. The USS Houston, a Los Angeles-class fast attack ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Navy divers from the U.S. and Indonesia confirmed that a sunken vessel in the Java Sea is the World War II wreck of the USS Houston, a cruiser sunk by the Japanese that serves ...

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 prisoners of war.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Navy divers from the U.S. and Indonesia confirmed that a sunken vessel in the Java Sea is the World War II wreck of the USS Houston, a cruiser sunk by the Japanese that serves ...

A sunken vessel in the Java Sea has been confirmed as the wreck of the USS Houston, a cruiser sunk by the Japanese during a ferocious Second World War battle. It serves as the final resting place for ...

The 33-year-old nuclear attack submarine USS Houston left Pearl Harbor this week for the state of Washington where it will be decommissioned in August. The 362-foot Los Angeles-class Houston, the ...

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.