Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 ...

A 1926 graduate of Muskogee's Central High School, Evans was the commander of the USS Johnston, a Fletcher-class destroyer, which was sunk by Japanese forces in World War II and the Battle off Samar.

Two of the USS KIDD’s sister ships, the USS JOHNSTON and USS HOEL, frustrated a massive Japanese plan to turn back the American advance across the Pacific, before these two destroyers themselves ...