The sub failed to make the scheduled rendezvous with USS Tunny and was officially declared lost on July 30, 1945. Emergency repairs were completed by 09:35 and the carrier had kept station with the other ships in the group. She was promptly repaired in three days' time and returned in time to fight the Battle of Midway. One of the warheads hit her port side, exploding the aviation fuel storage tanks forward of Turret 1 and folding the bow down to over 70 degrees. A tug came to help tow the ship to safety but as soon as towing began, Japanese shore batteries began to land shells in between the two American vessels. On 26 February 1944, the submarine was spotted by a Nakajima B5N which attacked. USS YC-674 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS SC-521 foundered off Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands, 10 July 1945. Her dead numbered 125 men and 67 men were wounded. The ship would be sold to the Chilean Navy and would serve until 1985. USSBunting(AMc-7) sunk by collision in San Francisco Bay, California, 3 June 1942. USSDuncan(DD-485) was operating with TF 64 of 4 cruisers and 5 destroyers during the night of 1112 October 1942, aiming to ambush approaching Japanese warships that were intending to bombard US Marine positions on Guadalcanal. USS LCI(G)-459 sunk off Palau, Caroline Islands, 19 September 1944. YP-183 destroyed by grounding on the west coast of Hawaii, 12 January 1943. Several bombs struck the bridge knocking out all communications, steering, and gun control. Today she is a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas. PT-301 damaged by explosion in port and scrapped, Mios Woendi, New Guinea, Although the ship suffered minor flooding, five dead and twenty three wounded; Claxton was able to complete her mission rescuing over one hundred eighty seven of Abner Read. Forty two men were killed and another forty one wounded. On 12 August 1945, just off the coast of Japan, a lone Japanese torpedo bomber penetrated the Allied defense to hit Pennsylvania with its warhead. U-549had slipped undetected through her screen. This incident was regarded by the Navy as the destruction of the Swordfish, but there are no collaborative Japanese reports to verify that a depth charge attack was made anywhere near where Kete was operating. USSAmmen(DD-527) was supporting the landing at Leyte on 1 November 1944 when at 09:52 she was chosen as the final destination for a kamikaze twin engine "Frances". Eight men were able to make their way ashore on Byan Island after more than seventeen hours in the water, where the crewmembers made contact with Filipino guerrillas. Both ships had their salvageable equipment removed and installed on brand new hulls. The ship was sunk in 1942 by torpedoes from an American submarine, which didn't realize it was carrying prisoners; many of the dead were Australians, making the sinking the deadliest sea event in Australia's history. USS LCT(6)-963 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944. After receiving temporary patches at Tonga, she steamed to Pearl Harbor for permanent repairs. USS YO-42 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS LCT(6)-555 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. . It remains unknown to this day exactly why S-28 sank, but taken down with her were the lives of forty-nine men. The navy presumed the ship was lost on 7 March 1942. On 30 September, Escolar transmitted a partial message which indicated she had been engaged by an enemy gunboat. The submarine was never heard from again, and was listed as lost on 12 May 1943. Severely damaged by grounding and scrapped. The ship remained commissioned in the Navy until 1963. The ship was still in the United States undergoing repairs when the war ended. YP-492 sunk by collision off east Florida, 8 January 1943. The Baya arrived at her agreed upon location and after failing to reach the Lagarto for over a half hour decided to attack alone which yielded no success. USS LCI(L)-20 sunk off Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944. USS LST-738 sunk by kamikaze aircraft off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 15 December 1944. Damaged by Japanese dive bombers and sank while under tow. USSIdaho(BB-42), on 3 May 1945 off Okinawa, was attacked by two Vals and three Kates at 1452. fifteen men were killed and 38 wounded in the attack. USS LCT(5)-496 sunk in the English Channel, 2 October 1943. Although possible, researchers believe this was too far from where Grayling was assigned to operate. The second plane scored a hit on the light cruiser. USS YD-56 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Most of Pope's crew would endure more than 60 hours in open sea, before spending years in POW camps. Soon after H-Hour, the destroyer was struck amidships by several large caliber shells. The forward part of the hangar was immediately engulfed in flames, igniting the few remaining planes on the flight deck. Although Edsall brazenly fired her torpedoes and main battery at the enemy ships, she was soon struck by dive bombers and hit by large-caliber naval gunfire. The destroyer was towed to Boston, MA where she had a new stern installed. 51 were killed and 81 were wounded. A torpedo passed underneath Oglala and hit Helena amidships on the starboard side. The ship had no casualties from this event. On 7 April 1945, a kamikaze cartwheeled across the flight deck and crashed into a group of planes, while its bomb hit the port catapult causing a tremendous explosion, killing 62 and wounding 71. The USCGC cutter detected the submarine by sound several times but the signal got more distant as time went on. Her gunners kept firing, while damage control crews fought the fires and helped the wounded. Houston would receive three battle stars for her service in WWII and was scrapped in 1959. A bomb had struck the Downes which was alongside the Cassin in drydock and started uncontrollable fires. USSSterett(DD-407) was operating with TF 67 on the night of 13 November 1942, which was heading to meet a Japanese surface task force head-on just off Guadalcanal. USS LCI(G)-474 sunk off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 17 February 1945. She was hit by two bombs and a torpedo which blew a 30-foot hole into her port side, although she managed to shoot down all of her attackers. The suicide attacker barely missed striking the bridge, instead clipping the ship's antenna before tumbling into the sea. She would emerge through the campaign with negligible shell damage which killed one man. The explosion killed 38 men and wounded 49; including members of the Navy's UDTs, and knocked out the ship's engines. After the third, an enemy plane spiraled toward the cruiser, but her gunners splashed it. The two task groups engaged each other at 23:00 on 6 October 1943 with gunfire and torpedoes. USS LCT(5)-197 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. USSEssex(CV-9) was hit by a low-flying kamikaze along the port edge of her flight deck on 25 November 1944. (Originally the 71 foot long Aku Sampan. Pensacola would finish the war and survived Operation Crossroads to be sunk as a target ship in 1948. USSDale(DD-290) was supporting operations in Buna as a high speed transport named SS Masaya when on 28 March 1943 she was attacked by five dive bombers, 6 miles off Oro Bay. The plane's bomb detonated in the No.3 five-inch turrets magazine, causing a devastating explosion which blew holes in the ship's hull, and started a massive inferno. USS PC-460 sunk by collision with a submarine in the Gulf of Panama, 24 January 1942. USS YC-714 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS LCT(6)-777 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. While observing attacks on near-by ships, the crew of Beatty spotted an incoming Junkers Ju88 coming in low on the water. William B Preston would finish the war as a tender and occasional transport. The brothers are (from left to right): Joseph . USSGrayling(SS-209) was on her eighth patrol of the war patrolling near the approaches to Manila. To the Japanese, Pearl Harbor was an irresistibly easy target. November 8, 2017 - 4,444 likes, 70 comments - WW2 Photos/Videos (@fuehrer_of_photography) on Instagram: "A major turning point in the Second World War was the . The American task force sent up a surprise ambush in the dark of night to "cross the T" and inflict several losses to the Japanese in the resulting Battle of Cape Esperance. Intentionally beached after flooding. USSColhoun(APD-2) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 30 August 1942. Destroyed in error by friendly fire from Allied aircraft. Today she is a museum ship in New York City. Sunk after grounding on a reef. Many of the survivors were wounded, and all suffered from lack of food and water. Wahoo had been the only US submarine operating in the area at the time. Norman Scott took as many as six direct hits over a fifteen-minute period which knocked out several guns and struck the bridge. USSWilliam B. Preston(DD-344) was anchored off Darwin, Australia on 19 Feb 1942 when over 240 Japanese aircraft bombed the area in a massive air strike. During the action Fanshaw Bay suffered four killed and four wounded, but the damage was not threatening to the hull of the ship. The plane hit the ship's number three gun mount, igniting a large fire. The ship rolled to starboard and sank at 1702, taking 103 of her crew with her. The suicide plane smashed into the mainmast and forward stack of the ship, wounding five men and starting several fires. Sunk by naval gunfire and carrier-based aircraft bombs. Destroyed by fire after striking a U.S. mine. USS LCS(L)(3)-49 sunk by suicide boat off Mariveles, Corregidor Channel, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 February 1945. At least 11 of the submarines listed above were lost due to accidents, including 1 (S-26) by a collision, 3 (R-12, S-28 and Lancetfish) by flooding, 4 (S-27, S-36, S-39 and Darter) by groundings and 3 (Tang, Tullibee and Grunion) sunk by circular runs of their own torpedoes. Fires broke out which were quickly brought under control but the damage was extensive and required repairs. Kinugasa and Salt Lake City exchanged fire with each other, each hitting the other several times, causing minor damage to Kinugasa and damaging one of Salt Lake City's boilers, reducing her speed. Fires were extinguished after twenty minutes and the ship rejoined formation but several gun mounts were destroyed. PT-320 destroyed by Japanese aircraft bombing, Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 5 November 1944. The plane's bomb passed through the ship, exploding close enough for shrapnel to kill and injure several men. USS YPK-7 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Japanese records indicate she struck a mine off the shore of Hokkaido which was witnessed by a patrol boat. At 0038, Benham took a torpedo hit off her bow, possibly from the Japanese destroyer Ayanami. USS YSP-43 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Fortunately the ship's crew was able to bring her safely toSaipan by 7 January 1945 under her own power. Sixty-seven men had been lost in the attacks, and one hundred and two were wounded. She rolled over and sunk minutes afterwards, the tip of her bow bobbing in the water until 0827. USS LCT(5)-25 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. USS Lafayette (AP-53) converted from SS Normandie () sunk by the FDNY at NYC Pier 88, Brooklyn, 9 February 1942.[7]. USS YC-1278 lost off the Atlantic coast, 10 March 1943. Probably captured or destroyed by Japanese. Norman Scott positioned herself so as to draw fire away from the battleship some 1,800 yards from shore, unfortunately the valiant maneuver would cost the destroyer. Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12-15 November 1942. Many salvos exploded close aboard or passed directly overhead; and, though no destroyer fire hit Kalinin Bay directly, she took ten more eight-inch hits from the now obscured cruisers. 77 sailors, including Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young, had been killed, and 105 wounded in the night's action. The Allied flagship and another cruiser were sunk by torpedoes, leaving Houston and HMASPerth alone. Refloated next day. USSLouisville(CA-28) was operating with TF 38 on 5 January 1945 off Lingayen Gulf when she was hit by a kamikaze which crashed into the No. USS LCT(6)-961 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944. The enemy bogey took fire and missed crashing into the ship but the plane's bomb detonated underneath the Butler in the water, damaging her keel and killing 14 men. On 13 July 1943 during the Battle of Kolombangara, Gwin was turning with formation to bring all main batteries to bear on four enemy destroyers, when the Japanese ships released a salvo of over 30 torpedoes at the Americans. On 7 January 1945, the ship was targeted by a Ki-43 "Oscar" kamikaze at 18:57. The two ships struggled to break free from each other while exchanging small arms fire, but the Borie took major damage to her hull, flooding her forward engine room. At 01:47, a torpedo, probably from Japanese cruiser Kako, hit Chicago's bow, sending a shock wave throughout the ship that damaged the main battery director. USS YMS-30 sunk by a mine off Anzio, Italy, 25 January 1944. The hulk of the abandoned ship drifted ashore to Tokashiki where it was shelled by the Japanese and pounded by the surf. USS YP-345 sunk south-east of Midway Island, 31 October 1942. USS YC-652 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. PT-283 damaged by Japanese shore batteries or wild shot from U.S. warship, 18 March 1944, and sank off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 19 March 1944. At 05:33, only 23 minutes after the explosion, Liscome Bay listed to starboard and sank; 53 officers and 591 enlisted men were killed, while 272 survived. The ship returned to the states for repairs shortly afterward. The ship would return to the war to participate in the Okinawa campaign. 2 vols. After both ships destroyed about twelve incoming bogeys, Evans took several direct hits and was dead in the water at 09:00, leaving Hadley to battle on by herself. USSRowan(DD-405) was assisting the landings in the Gulf of Salerno on 10 September 1942 when her convoy of ships was attacked by German E-boats shortly after midnight. Ultimate fate unknown. 71 of her men were rescued. 3. USSPlymouth(PG-57) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-566 off North Carolina, 5 August 1943. USSHalligan(DD-584) was conducting patrols just off Okinawa near Tokashiki Island on 26 March 1945 when at 18:35, a tremendous explosion shook the ship sending smoke and debris over two-hundredfeet in the air. This incident was one of several reasons cited by Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. as justification of formally opening hostilities. Both ships managed to make it to Tjilatjap on 28 Feb, but were unable to resupply or refuel completely. Heavily damaged by an accidental explosion. The ship began to quickly flood and listed severely to port. USS Tecumseh. USSBorie(DD-215) was hunting German U-boat "U405" on 1 November 1943 when the submarine surfaced and the vessels engaged each other with gunfire. The submarine was ordered to change her patrol area north of Iwo Jima on 9 November which she acknowledged. Scuttled after attack by Japanese aircraft. No casualties were reported and the ship remained on station. The crew shifted weight topside so the ship listed far enough to raise the holes out of the water. USSNoa(APD-24) sunk in collision with USSFullam(DD-474) off Palau, Caroline Islands, 12 September 1944. Two hours after the dual kamikaze attacks, at 21:15, Bismarck Sea sank with the loss of 318 men, the last US Navy aircraft carrier to be lost during World War II. At 10:50 hours, a formation of nine Japanese Navy Zero kamikaze planes attacked in the first organized suicide attack of the war. The shockwave from the explosion caused even more damage to the ship's hull, most certainly breaking her keel. The starboard seaplane caught fire and was jettisoned. USSMaddox(DD-622) was supporting the invasion of Sicily on 10 July 1943, performing anti-submarine duties alone some 16 miles off the coast when she was attacked by an Italian Junkers Ju 88. USS LCI(L)-91 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. The starboard wing of the plane was thrown far forward, starting a gasoline fire at five-inch Gun Mount No. U.S. USSAllen M. Sumner(DD-692) was making a night-time sweep with two other destroyers targeting Japanese transports unloading supplies in Ormac Bay just after midnight on 3 December 1944. It would be struck by another kamikaze later that day, in the same spot the first plane had hit. At 03:13, Radford's radar picked up a contact some 5,000 yards away, and confirmed it was Helena's bow pointing up out of the water. On 9 January 1945, she was hit again by a kamikaze "Tojo" fighter which crashed into the forward gun director gun mount, killing 24 and wounding 97 men. Corry would at times approach within 1000 yards of the beach firing her guns at German pillboxes and emplacements. The kamikaze's bomb penetrated the aft engine room and exploded, jamming the rudder. USS LST-179 sunk by explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944. After several hours of fighting fires and suffering severe internal explosions caused by leaking gasoline vapors, the ship was abandoned and scuttled with a loss of 216 men. By 03:00, nearly 400 men, including about 70 wounded and many dead, were assembled on the forecastle deck. 11 of her crew were killed during the engagement. One of her men died and 35 were wounded. USS LCS(L)(3)-127 sunk off California, 5 March 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 30 March 1945. USS YC-671 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. She earned three battle stars for her WWII service. Scuttled after being damaged in Japanese air raid. It was widely believed that the Nazis destroyed Rome's first-century Nemi ships during World War II. The first hit the fantail, the second on the starboard side of the pilot house, the third struck the portside of the Combat Information Center, the fourth hit the number three five-inch gun, and the fifth hit the starboard side at the waterline. Borie would return to the main task force to transfer her wounded to a hospital ship, the ship lost forty-eight dead and sixty-six wounded.
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