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USS England (DE-635), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign John C. England (1920–1941), who was killed in action aboard the battleship Oklahoma during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
Ensign John Charles England (December 11, 1920 – December 7, 1941) was an officer in the United States Navy.He died on USS Oklahoma after it was torpedoed and sank in the Japanese Empire's attack on Pearl Harbor.
A number of Allied ships were damaged by Japanese suicide air attacks during World War II.Many of these attacks were by the kamikaze (officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, "Divine Wind Special Attack Unit"), using pilot-guided explosive missiles, purpose-built or converted from conventional aircraft, by the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific ...
On 3 September 1941 he reported for duty on the battleship Oklahoma and was killed three months later while saving others aboard during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. CG/DLG-22 was the second USS England. The first was England (DE-635), the ship that sank six enemy
23 November – After the U.S. Navy destroyers USS Meade (DD-602) and USS Frazier (DD-607) sank the Japanese submarine I-35 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) west of Betio in Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands at and launched boats to recover I-35′s survivors, a U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless dive bomber from the escort aircraft carrier USS Suwannee ...
Both were named for Ensign John C. England. USS England (DE-635) was commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1945. She is best known for finding and destroying 6 Japanese submarines in 12 days during May 1944. USS England (DLG-22)/(CG-22) was a guided missile cruiser, was commissioned on 7 December 1963, and decommissioned on 21 January 1994.
There, at the harbor entrance, Gear (ARS-34) took England under tow and pulled her inside the anchorage. At that time, the harbor was blanketed with smoke as enemy aircraft were again in the vicinity. Vigilance crept alongside Gosper (APA-170) at 0110 on 10 May and transferred USS England's casualties to the transport.
The bombardment of Cherbourg took place on June 25, 1944, during World War II, when ships from the United States Navy and the British Royal Navy attacked German fortifications in and near the city, firing in support of U.S. Army units that were engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.