The Cruiser Houston: Of Pride and Purpose, part 1

[Tyco200]

Jap pigs must've been like, "holly shit! American and Western Wolves are here to slaughter our asses!" That's exactly why they freaked the shit out. ;) Dead!

[Tyco200]

Guessing this is why America cannot create a documentary - They are absolute idiots as historians who don't even know what they're speaking of. Thankfully, the male in this film does seem quite smart.

[Tyco200]

Typical Jitsu is much weaker than the American equivalent.

[Tyco200]

Houston could've killed Japan along with Perth if: 1.) America had no been purely mesmerized. 2.) The main harbor pf Darwin, Australia wasn't bombed to hell, which could've given adequate ship-support to the vastly outnumbered American/Dutch/Australians and Brits. 3.) They didn't prematurely LAUNCH their torpedoes in combat.... 4.) They had actually newer English destroyers, rather than six eight inch guns of the Exetor, which sucked and had POOR firecontrol. Houston and Perth were alone...

[Tyco200]

It was numbers, constant air attacks and the fact that the ABDA had very poor communication that got them killed. If Houston, or any of those ships, hadn't had air raids over them, Japan would've PAID. Japan only used what little "GOOD" or "adequate" aircraft they could use against us. But Japan had literally NO good ground, naval or air equipment. They did use a lot of gambles - NO armored fighters over slow pigsties, good torpedoes but BAD ships, HORRIBLE tanks.

[Tyco200]

"Well equipped" and "Modern" is not what Japan was. Their ships had inferior fire control, ballistics, some didn't even have radar. What is this Historian Bimbo saying? Seriously. Japan had no good ships, what so ever.

[Tyco200]

God Death to IJN Jitsu - Scum of the earth.

[Tyco200]

USS Houston was not old - They had beautiful guns. Her amazing armament, if not excluded due to a bomb on her aft turret, would her ballistics slaughter the Japanese. We had the best cruisers - they had torpedoes. We had ballistics - They had pigsty equipment from who knows when. God Bless The Lone Wolf, Houston.

[Ranger565]

Big Joe, My Grandfather was too! He was also a POW. He passed in 86. I was 11 when he passed away I never got a chance to talk to him about it.

[me3tv]

These are a special band of brothers. May their banner ever wave. I remember Dutch Kooper telling me of his watching the ship sink - as he treaded water in the dark. The ship was lighted up by many Japanese searchlights and the American Flag still waved from the mast. A marine gunner (who could not swim) in the topmast kept firing at the light sources. Eventually the ship settled and flag fluttered as the water took it under. Dutch said he was never so proud that they fought to the end.

[bigjudge77]

My Grandfather was on this ship and lived 3.5 years in a Japanese P.O.W. camp. He made it to 90 years old when we lost him in October of this year. I could not be more proud of him!

[BigTed5]

On the 68th Anniversary of the Battle of the Sunda Stait. You are remembered. God Keep You

[Remenents]

I have been looking for something like this video and part 2. I love the Houston, my favortie ships of the war. God Bless the men for their sacrifice!