The three Rogers brothers were World War II sailors who, while serving together aboard the, were all killed in action during the Battle of Tassafaronga on November 30, 1942. Their younger brother Hugh, who was 17 at the time of their deaths, enlisted in the Navy and served aboard the USS New Orleans.[1] [2] The U.S. Navy destroyer was named in their memory.
They were:
Similar to the Sullivan brothers' deaths aboard the roughly two weeks earlier, events such as these led to the adoption of a rule that no longer permitted family members to serve with each other in combat areas.