One of the first radio-guided missiles ever launched in war sank a transport ship killing 1015 US soldiers in a secret attack that remains the greatest loss of life at sea in the history of US war. This shocking WWII documentary uncovers classified documents confirming that the large number of casualties was due to non-functioning lifeboats and inadequate lifebelts worn by the soldiers. The US War Department declared the disaster classified indefinitely ordering all survivors to remain silent. Casualty families were misled as most of the parents of the dead soldiers went to their own graves never knowing what happened to their boys, they just never came home.
“I live in an old house that has been in my wife’s family for over 100 years. I found a box of letters in our attic from a soldier in training who wrote home to his mother. The soldier was my wife’s great-uncle, an uncle she didn’t know anything about. It was as if he never existed, but he existed to me. I heard his voice in those letters and I knew that I had to tell his story.”
-Jack Ballo
Producer / Director
