After five years of their own blood, sweat and tears, producers Jack Ballo, who is also the director, and Michael Walsh will air the story of the HMT Rohna − the largest loss at sea in the history of ...

The destruction of the HMT Rohna is described as one of the worst wartime tragedies in U.S. history — that virtually no one ever heard about. The Rohna was attacked Nov. 26, 1943, killing 1,015 U.S.

But the ship the young soldier was assigned to take from North Africa to the China-Burma-India theatre during World War II, His Majesty’s Transport Rajula, had to turn back to port. It couldn’t keep ...

The stories are eerily the same. John Gray's wife left the walkway light on to their Hollywood Avenue home in West Long Branch in hopes that her husband would walk through the door. He never did. A ...

Five years ago, Jack Ballo stumbled upon a box of 23 yellowed handwritten letters from Sgt. Joseph Pisinki, Ballos' wife's great-uncle. Most were written 80 years ago to Pisinki's mother, Mary, during ...

With nearly 2,000 American soldiers on board, many in their first days of action, the HMT Rohna left North Africa on Thanksgiving Day 1943 to support allied forces against Japan in what's often called ...

I smiled and said, “Good luck!” I didn’t tell her that I had warned music fans all the way back in May that Rohna’s highly-anticipated album release show would sell out. Through a careful rollout of ...

A long-time resident of a tiny community in the high Sierras near Yosemite National Park is on a mission to inform the American public about this nation’s deadliest disaster on the high seas and the U ...

It was the greatest loss of U.S. lives at sea in war, but few have ever heard of it. That’s because the sinking of the HMT Rohna in the Mediterranean Sea in 1943 by a secret German weapon, a ...

On Nov. 26, 1943, 1,015 U.S. servicemen were killed in the greatest loss of life at sea by enemy action in U.S. history when the HMT (“His Majesty’s Transport”) Rohna, a 1926-built British India Steam ...

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