On the fateful transport mission in 1943 from Oran, Algeria, to India, the HMT Rohna was carrying 2,193 military personnel and 195 crew members, roughly twenty times its capacity. The result of ...

The "HMT" stands for "His Majesty's Transport ... Just one sentence. The government, the military — they are well aware that these men are dead. Then, months later in May, the families ...

Pisinski died in the attack on the HMT Rohna on Nov. 26, 1943. He was 23 years old. It was his second official day of war. That day, the United States experienced its greatest loss of life at s ...

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 ...