Jan 02 , 2026
Ernest E. Evans knew death was near before the first salvo. His destroyer escort, USS Johnston (DD-557), stood alone. Across the gray sheets of the Philippine Sea, the steel dragons of the Imperial...
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Jan 02 , 2026
Ernest E. Evans stood his ground amid chaos that would break lesser men. His ship, the USS Johnston, battered and bloodied, faced the might of a Japanese task force three times its size. There was ...
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Jan 01 , 2026
Ernest E. Evans stared down destruction, his ship a beacon in swirling chaos. The sea around him churned with fire and steel. Enemy warships bore down, their guns roaring like hell’s own chorus. Ag...
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Jan 01 , 2026
The sea burned red beneath a sun that barely rose. Smoke choked the morning sky as a tiny destroyer found itself face-to-face with a force that should have crushed it under millions of tons of stee...
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Dec 30 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stood alone on the bridge of the USS Johnston, a destroyer thrown into the jaws of hell. The sea roared beneath him. Across the horizon, the largest fleet he’d ever seen—Japanese ba...
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Dec 28 , 2025
The sea was a graveyard that morning. Smoke choked the horizon. Enemy shells slammed into the calm before the storm. Against impossible odds, one man stood like a thunderbolt. Ernest E. Evans, capt...
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