 When Java fell to the Japanese, Cuhel and other correspondents made a daring last minute escape.Cuhel was killed in the crash of the ill-fated Boeing 314 called "Yankee Clipper" into the Tagus River on the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal on February 22, 1943 (the same flight which badly injured Jane Froman and served as the climax to her biopic "With A Song In My Heart").That December, a freighter was christened the "Frank J. Cuhel" in his honor.