USS HOUSTON CA 30
“The galloping Ghost of
the
James
Elmore Hogan
"Elmore"
Rachel Verheyen
You have a MIA soldier who was my
great uncle listed. You have him as J.E. Hogan. His name is Jame Elmore Hogan and the family called him Elmore.
There were mixed stories back then. Many of the survivors from the POW
camps said that Elmore had been with them and or had seen him, 
where others
testified that he had been killed during the attack.
I grew up
hearing stories from my grandfather. Maj. John Charlie Hogan,
Elmore's younger brother about the USS Houston, and they continued to search
for 
him and ask
questions for years. James' mother Lucy Campbell Hogan, was my great
grandmother who lived into her 90s was broken about her son all my life and had
a special trunk with his pictures and things that no one was able to access
until her passing. My sister now had taken his pictures and put a
wonderful album together years ago, in which we all enjoyed a couple of years
ago when my grandfather passed at the age of 89.