In November 1942, during the three-day Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, the USS Juneau sank after being struck by two Japanese torpedoes. As a result, 687 men were killed, five of whom were the Sullivan brothers—siblings who, ten months earlier, had enlist…
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