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The E-Sylum: Volume 27, Number 28, July 14, 2024, Article 11

VIDEO: TRIBUTE TO TWO HEROIC SHIPS

The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's one from 2005 with Tom Sebring speaking about a numismatic tribute to two allied ships sunk by the Japanese in WWII. -Editor

  heroic ships title card

A coin struck in 2004 commemorated the Australian cruiser Perth and the American cruiser Houston. Both were sunk in a sea battle in 1942 by the Japanese. Learn the survivor's' fate after being taken prisoner as well as:

  • Overview of the start of WWII Story of the sea battle
  • The cruel treatment of the prisoners
  • Salvage of the ships

From the 2005 American Numismatic Association summer convention.

Speaker(s): Tom Sebring.

  heroic ships USS Houston

To watch the complete video, see:
Numismatic Tribute to Two Heroic Ships (https://youtu.be/NXfhe9H9yVA)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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