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The ship would survive the war to be returned to the US Navy, and later sunk as a target. USS Pope (DD-225) was escorting the severely damaged British cruiser Exeter on 1 March 1942, when a Japanese task force of heavy cruisers broke up the rescue effort.
Name Hull number Ship class Location Date Cause Arizona: BB-39 Pennsylvania class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Sunk by bombers from aircraft carrier Hiryū: Oklahoma: BB-37 : Nevada class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Capsized by torpedo bombers from aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga and raised in 1943 but not repaired. Sank 17 May 1947 in a storm while being towed to San Francisco for ...
Kaisho Maru – On 4 August the Horaisan Maru-class auxiliary transport ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Java Sea south of Borneo off Cape Atein) by USS Finback ( United States Navy). 196 passengers, including 57 Japanese and 139 Javanese, and 47 crewmen were killed
By war's end in 1945, the United States Navy had added nearly 1,200 major combatant ships, including ninety-nine aircraft carriers, eight "fast" battleships, and ten prewar "old" battleships [6] totaling over 70% of the world's total numbers and total tonnage of naval vessels of 1,000 tons or greater.
Sunk 28 July 1945 Idaho United States Navy: New Mexico: super-dreadnought: 32,514 24 March 1919 3 July 1946 Broken up at Newark, 1947 Impero Regia Marina: Littorio: fast battleship: 40,992 Launched during war 15 November 1939, broken up at Venice, 1948 to 1950 Indiana United States Navy: South Dakota: fast battleship: 35,980 30 April 1942 15 ...
List of ships of World War II (A) Ship Country or organization Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate Aaron Ward (DD-483) United States Navy: Gleaves: destroyer: 1,630 4 March 1942 Sunk 7 April 1943 [5] Aaron Ward (DM-34) Robert H. Smith: minelayer destroyer: 2,200 28 October 1944 Constructive loss 30 April 1945, scrapped 1946 ...
Sunk by U-boat Sunk by aircraft Sunk by warship or raider Sunk by mines Total Allied shipping sunk German submarines lost Sep. '39 3297070 153879 0 5051 29537 158930 2 Oct. '39 3576135 134807 0 32058 29490 166865 5 Nov. '39 4408689 51589 0 1722 120958 53311 1 Dec. '39 4466664 80881 2949 22506 82712 106336 1 Jan. '40 4847044 111263
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered one of the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. [3] Some 16,000 submariners served during the war, of whom 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men were killed, resulting in a total fatality rate of around 22%.