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USS PT-133 Sunk by Japanese shore batteries, July 15 1944. USS PT-164 Sunk by Japanese aircraft, August 1 1943. USS PT-247 Sunk by Japanese shore batteries, May 5 1944. USS PT-251 Sunk by Japanese shore batteries, February 26 1944. USS PT-300 Sunk by a Kamikaze, December 18 1944. USS PT-320 Sunk by Japanese aircraft, November 5 1944.
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 ...
Yokosuka D4Y3 Suisei (Allied code name "Judy") Japanese dive bomber dives on the Essex (November 25, 1944). Kamikaze (神風, literally: "God wind"; common translation: "Divine wind") [kamikaꜜze] ⓘ, official name: Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (特別攻撃隊), Tokkō Tai (特攻隊) or Tokkō (特攻) were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels ...
Both ships were seaplane tenders before their conversion in 1943. Both ships sunk in 1944. Ryūhō-class: Light aircraft carrier: Ryūhō (1934/1942–1945) 16,700 tonnes Converted from the submarine tender Taigei 1941–1942. Recommissioned as Ryūhō 1942. Scrapped 1946.
In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan for a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft before it could reach Okinawa; Yamato and five other Japanese warships ...
The destroyers Bush and Colhoun were sunk by kamikazes and the destroyers Newcomb and Leutze took heavy damage; the battleship Maryland and 10 other destroyers were targeted by kamikazes as well. The US Navy claimed the loss of 3 destroyers, 1 amphibious warfare ship and 2 munitions transports, along with over 10 other ships heavily damaged.
Sunk by air attack during Operation Ten-Go Apr 1945 Musashi: Mar 1938 Aug 1942 Sunk at Battle of the Sibuyan Sea Oct 1944 Shinano: May 1940 completed as aircraft carrier sunk by submarine attack 29 November 1944 Hull 111 scrapped 6 × 6.1-in. Hull 797 cancelled Design A-150 battleship: 70,000 tons 6 × 20.1-in. "Many" × 3.9-in. Hull 798 cancelled
By May 1945, most of the Imperial Japanese Navy had been sunk, and the remnants had taken refuge in harbors on the Japanese Home Islands. [12] By July 1945, all but one of the IJN's capital ships had been sunk in raids by the United States Navy. By the end of the war, the IJN had lost 334 warships and 300,386 officers and men. [12]