BIO: Five SULLIVAN brothers, Albert, Francis, George, Joseph and Madison, were born in Waterloo, Iowa, between 1914 and 1920. In 1937, George and Francis enlisted in the Navy. They were followed by their three younger brothers shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into war. In February 1941 all five were assigned to the light cruiser, the "USS Juneau." After service in the Pacific , including combat actions in the Guadalcanal Campaign, they were lost on November 13, 1942, when a Japanese submarine torpedoed and sank the ship. The tragedy received extensive press coverage in the U.S., resulting in a new Navy policy prohibiting family members from serving together in the same ship. The story of the Sullivan brothers was commemorated in the patriotic film, "The Fighting Sullivans." The Navy commemorated the Sullivans by naming a destroyer in their honor.