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A version of this story appears in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world ...

The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...