USS LCT(6)-597 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. Despite the damage, she was temporarily repaired and resumed bombardment and counter-battery fire of enemy positions. However, after the war, Japanese records did not report sinking a submarine near Kiska when the submarine disappeared. The next strike was cancelled, but the following one, against Miayako Shima, took place as scheduled at 10:30. The sub failed to make the scheduled rendezvous with USS Tunny and was officially declared lost on July 30, 1945. Sunk by Japanese shore defense batteries. USS LSM-149 grounded off the Philippine Islands, 5 December 1944. Twelve minutes later, she rolled completely over, then her stern rose into the air and she sank. In less than fifteen seconds, R-12 sank to the sea floor. USSTang(SS-306) left Midway Island on 24 September 1944 headed for the Formosa Strait. It was widely believed that the Nazis destroyed Rome's first-century Nemi ships during World War II. Luckily none of Rathburne's crew was hurt in the attack. Today she serves in North Carolina as a battleship memorial museum. She was raised and underwent major reconstruction to modernize the ship, rejoining the fleet in May 1944. USS LCT(5)-36 sunk off Naples, Italy, 26 February 1944. At 19:58 the carrier was scuttled by a torpedo from the destroyer USS Burns, taking with her 95 men. USS YC-666 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS LCS(L)(3)-37 engines damaged beyond repair by a depth charge dropped under the fantail by a suicide boat off Nakagusuki Wan, Okinawa, 28 April 1945. At that time seven float biplanes made their way to the area and homed in on the burning Morrison who had difficulties shooting down the wooden biplanes which did not detonate VT fuses. USSAtlanta(CL-51) was sailing as a part of TF 67 on 12 November 1942 with four additional cruisers and eight destroyers to meet an incoming Japanese surface force consisting of two battleships and eleven destroyers intending on bombarding Henderson Field. USSBittern(AM-36) Sunk by aircraft bombs at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 10 December 1941. Two of the attacking planes were brought down. Stricken on 25 February 1946 and destroyed in August 1946. Sunk after running aground in heavy weather. YP-74 sunk by collision, 6 September 1942. Wasp sank with the loss of 193 dead and 366 wounded. PT-123 destroyed by Japanese aircraft bombing, off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1 February 1943. Suffering from the effects of at least 65 hits, Astoria fought for her life. After three salvos, the target burst into flame and was soon dead in the water. Damage was minimal and the ship remained on duty in the South Pacific. In this attack 135 men were killed and another 190 wounded. A nearby Landing Craft Ship took off the surviving crew at 18:00 while a tugboat attempted to tow the destroyer away, but fires and a heavy list made it obvious that she could not be saved and was sunk by gunfire. USS YO-64 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, January 1942, and stricken from the Navy List, 21 April 1944. Twenty minutes later, at least ten Japanese planes simultaneously approached the destroyer from several directions; although facing insurmountable odds, Hadley shot down all ten attackers. After shooting down six, she was hit nearly instantaneously by five suicide planes in a well-coordinated attack. It was determined the sub was missing after she failed to turn up to a downed pilot in her assigned location on 20 April 1945. The ship reached the downed crews raft an hour later who were under fire from Japanese shore batteries. Hell ship - Wikipedia Wasp was struck by three torpedoes fired from Japanese submarine I-19 which hit the vicinity of the ship's gasoline and magazines. Her antiaircraft gunners responded, hitting one of the intruders, which immediately changed course and crashed into USS St. USS SC-1024 sunk after collision off North Carolina, 2 March 1943. USS LST-203 destroyed by grounding near Nanumea, Ellice Islands, 2 October 1943. . On April 14, 1942, the first German U-boat fought by the American navy in U.S. waters was sunk sixteen miles southeast of Nags Head. Fortunately for the crew of Fanshaw Bay, the Japanese turned and retired from battle, having lost several ships themselves. USSBelknap(DD-251) was covering the landings at Lingayen Gulf and Luzon when on 11 January 1945 she was attacked by a kamikaze which struck the ship in the number two stack. Most of the crew was picked up by neighboring ships but twenty two crewmembers would go down with Abner Read. Most of the crew was rescued and the two halves of the ship sank separately. The destroyer then dueled with heavy cruiser Chikuma taking several hits from eight-inch shells that flooded the forward section of the ship and knocked out a five-inch gun. Strong and Nicholas entered the harbor at 00:30 and began shelling when ten minutes later, Strong was hit by a torpedo on her portside aft. The resulting explosion detonated the ship's aft magazine storage enveloping the destroyer in flame. Severely damaged by grounding and scrapped. A direct hit knocked the aft antiaircraft director overboard. 2 Turret. Recent research has suggested the Japanese laid lines of fresh mines out across areas where Capelin should have been operating at the time. The German government's apology and admission of the attack as a mistake did little to assuage Americans' anger, which increased exponentially when German forces torpedoed and sank the British . USSGambier Bay(CVE-73) was fired on and hit by multiple Japanese warships during the Battle off Samar when the highly outgunned and outnumbered task force "Taffy 3" was engaged by a surface group consisting of four battleships, including Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever built. 28 of her crew were killed in the battle, and another 13 seriously wounded. USSAulick(DD-569) was performing anti-submarine patrols near the entrance to Leyte Gulf on 29 November 1944 when at 1750 she was targeted by six "Oscar's". USS YC-673 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Of a crew of 192, only 16 men were rescued. USS LCT(6)-1050 sunk off Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 27 July 1945. Edward Rutledge (AP 52) by U-130 off Morocco, 12 Nov 1942 George F. Elliot (AP. Another kamikaze crashed close aboard and showered the port side with shrapnel and burning debris. Lost with the Shark were the lives of fifty four crew. USS YSP-42 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS LCT(5)-486 sunk off northern France, 7 June 1944. USSHovey(DD-208) was sailing with a minesweeper group on 7 January 1945 in Lingayen Gulf when the US ships were attacked by kamikazes. The plane's bomb detonated in a violent explosion that buckled the Pringle's keel and effectively broke the ship in two. PT-34 sunk by Japanese aircraft strafing attack off Cauit Island, Cebu, Philippine Islands, 9 April 1942. The kamikaze's bomb detonated, engulfing the bridge in flames and inflicting damage to communication, fire control and radar equipment. USS Thresher (SSN-593) underway, 30 April 1961. The bow twisted to port, damaging the ship's hull as it was wrenched free by the ship's momentum, and sank immediately off the aft port quarter. Since it appeared that the ship could be saved, a salvage crew of about 325 able-bodied men went back aboard Astoria. USSBullhead(SS-332) was on her third patrol of the war near Bali when on 6 August 1945 the submarine reported she had made her way through the Lombok Strait en route to a rendezvous with a wolfpack in the Java Sea. USS LCT(5)-209 sunk off northern France, 10 June 1944. The huge explosions broke the Barton in two and she quickly sank. Secondary explosions of the ammunition stored in the casemates caused serious fires there and in the galley deck below them. After the war Nevada was used as a target ship, first in Operation Crossroads, then sunk by naval gunfire and torpedoes in 1948. The sub resurfaced at dusk but found the damage sustained would prevent the sub from diving again. One five-inch gun. From August 1943 Minneapolis would go on to serve in every major American operation in the Pacific save Iwo Jima. Postwar analysis of Japaese records indicate an American submarine was attacked on 19 October 1944 by a Japanese escort which dropped 30 depth charges and observed a large oil slick and debris on the ocean surface. Grounded by Typhoon Louise and abandoned. In the first attack wave a torpedo passed ahead and a second hit Raleigh portside amidships. USSTurner(DD-648) was anchored not far from Ambrose Light on 3 January 1944 after a series of trips escorting convoys across the Atlantic when suddenly at 0650, several internal explosions in her ammunition storage area began to wreck the destroyer. Hit by Kamikaze on 20 May and damaged beyond repair. Repeated attempts to contact the Grampus went unanswered, and the sub was presumed lost with all hands 22 March 1943. USSOmmaney Bay(CVE-79) was hit by a kamikaze attack south of Mindoro, Philippine Islands, on 4 January 1945. The ship made it through the night, but by early morning the storm grew in intensity, and began to severely hamper the Warrington. Damaged by Japanese dive bombers and sank while under tow. At 08:50 a D3A "Val" chose Bennett as its victim, and despite heavy fire plowed into the ship's starboard side. 2 in Pearl Harbor for an inspection and temporary repairs. Repairs were made at Pearl Harbor. USS YC-970 lost in Puget Sound, Washington, 14 August 1943. Today she is a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas. All crew with the exception of a fifty-man damage control party abandoned the ship into life rafts. Within the next couple of months, three more U-boats were sunk along the North Carolina coast: one by a U.S. Army Air Corps bomber, one by a U.S. Coast Guard patrol ship, and one by a U.S. Navy destroyer. (Originally the 71 foot long Aku Sampan. USSPensacola(CA-24) was sailing on 29 November 1942 with TF 67 to intercept a Japanese destroyer-transport force expected off Guadalcanal the next night. Here's the Entire U.S. Navy Fleet in One Chart - Popular Mechanics By 18:20, signal had been completely lost with the sub. In total darkness; the two task forces streamed towards on another until at 01:48, Atlanta was illuminated by searchlights from Japanese battleship Hiei which was only 3,000 yards away, practically point-blank range for the battleship. The carrier lost six men in the attack; the remaining 951 were picked up by the escort screen. USS YMS-39 sunk by a mine off Balikpapan, Borneo, 26 June 1945.
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