US navy sailed in as friends
Included was the story of another branch of the clan, the five Irish-American Sullivan brothers who, in similar fashion, believed in staying together come what may and tragically lost their lives on the same US navy vessel during World War II.
After their deaths on December 7, 1941, US vice-president Henry A Wallace described it as "one of the most extraordinary tragedies which has ever been met by any one family in the United States."
