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Ward, after being hit by a kamikaze on 7 December 1944. She was sunk by U.S. Navy fire later the same day. As the Pacific War moved closer to Japan, Ward was assigned to assist with operations to recover the Philippine Islands. On 17 October 1944, she put troops ashore on Dinagat Island during the opening phase of the Leyte invasion.
The Marine who died alongside three defense contractors last Thursday when their surveillance flight crashed in the Philippines has been identified as Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, according to officials.
Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200 [1]: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
A DOD-contracted aircraft flying an "intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance" mission crashed in the Philippine Province of Maguindanao del Sur, killing all four on board, U.S. Indo-Pacific ...
Outerbridge and the O'Brien were then reassigned to the Pacific Fleet to participate in the liberation of the Philippines. In a strange twist of fate, on December 7, 1944, during the landings at Leyte Gulf, Outerbridge was ordered to use the O'Brien's deck guns to sink the Ward, which had been severely damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack. [8]
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 ...
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) Japanese minelayer Sarushima; Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1931) Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942) Japanese destroyer Shiratsuyu (1935) Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku; USS Skylark (AM-63) USS Snook (SS-279) USS Spence; USS St. Lo; Japanese cruiser Suzuya (1934) USS Swallow (AM-65)
By Sakura Murakami. ABOARD USS CARL VINSON (Reuters) - Japan's navy on Saturday announced the start of a joint annual military exercise, with the Philippines observing the operations for the first ...