Nov 22 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stood at the prow of the USS Johnston, under a storm of fire that seemed bent on swallowing him whole. His destroyer—a small, battered shadow— was about to take on an entire Jap...
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Nov 22 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of USS Johnston, eyes burning through early dawn haze. On 25 October 1944, the roar of destruction closed in—Japanese battleships and cruisers loomed, bigger, de...
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Nov 21 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of USS Samuel B. Roberts, a 1,200-ton destroyer escort, staring down a sea dark with death and steel. Before him, a Japanese fleet loomed—battleships, cruisers, ...
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Nov 21 , 2025
The decks shuddered beneath relentless fire. Smoke clawed the sky. Outnumbered, outgunned, but never outmatched. Captain Ernest E. Evans stood firm on the bridge of USS Johnston. Around him, chaos ...
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Nov 20 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stared down the storm of steel and fire with a calm forged in hell. A single destroyer, the USS Johnston, threw itself into the maw of a Japanese battleship fleet. No retreat. No qu...
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Nov 19 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stood alone against impossibility. His destroyer escort, the USS Johnston, was pummeled by a Japanese fleet three times its size. Amid the roar of guns and the whirl of torpedoes, E...
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