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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Rohna disaster during World War II was the largest loss at sea in the history of any U.S. war. A new 60-minute documentary, "Rohna Classified," re-examines the tragedy in hopes of finding some ...

A WWII transport ship was sunk by one of the first radio-guided missiles ever used in war. A WWII transport ship equipped with non-functioning lifeboats and inadequate lifebelts was sunk by one of the ...

BEVERLY — Saul Gurman kept the sinking of the HMT Rohna during World War II a secret for decades. At the Cabot Thursday night, nine months after his death at 101, a documentary featuring the local war ...

2,000 US soldiers board a British transport ship without any idea that the lifeboats are rusted so badly that they could never be launched. They’re issued lifebelts that need to be inflated instead of ...

Sunday marks the 80th anniversary of the deadliest – but little known – disaster at sea for the U.S. military during World War II, one that killed at least nine men from Northeast Pennsylvania. The ...