Twice torpedoed during what historian S. E. Morison called the "wildest most desperate sea fight since Jutland", Juneau sank rapidly, taking under the captain and most of her crew, including the three Sullivan brothers.

For his "extraordinary heroism...daring and determination..." Captain Swenson was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

Born in Houston, Milo was the niece of John W. Abercrombie, U.S. congressman from Alabama and the former wife of the convicted World War One German spy and later, Hollywood movie actor, Wilhelm von Brincken.

Abercrombie, acclaimed by noted portraitist Harrison Fisher as "California's greatest beauty", had married von Brincken in 1915 when he was a German military attaché in San Francisco.

She divorced him in 1919 and was awarded custody of their two children while he was imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary on Puget Sound, after being convicted in the Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial for plotting to foment an insurrection against British colonial rule in India.

Abercrombie and Swenson, who had both refused to marry unless it was sanctioned by the Catholic Church were then free to wed.[3] The couple had two children, Lyman K. Jr. ("Robert") and Cecilia.

[4] The third generation of a wealthy St. Louis brewery family,[5] Koehler had been a naval intelligence and U.S. State Department spy in South Russia during the Russian Revolution.