Naval Disaster in Newfoundland
By Captain George Stewart, USN (Ret’d) Naval History Foundation This post provides a description of the events surrounding the loss of USS Truxtun (DD 229) and USS Pollux (AKS 2) by grounding off…
By Captain George Stewart, USN (Ret’d) Naval History Foundation This post provides a description of the events surrounding the loss of USS Truxtun (DD 229) and USS Pollux (AKS 2) by grounding off…
At 1:20 p.m. on February 22, 1945, as a convoy including ships from the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy sailed out of Wales, the second…