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The USS Edsall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to evade attacks. U.S. destroyer sunk during WWII found at bottom of ocean ...
USS Edsall (DD-219), was a Clemson-class destroyer, the first of two United States Navy ships named after Seaman Norman Eckley Edsall (1873–1899). She was sunk by a combined Japanese air and sea attack, approximately 200 miles (320 km) east of Christmas Island on 1 March 1942.
The old US destroyer – Edsall was commissioned in 1920 – and its 4-inch guns would prove to be no match for the newer Japanese fleet with bigger guns and dozens of aircraft carrying 500-pound ...
An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce battle a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
USS Edsall (DD-219), a Clemson-class destroyer, in commission from 1920 to 1942 USS Edsall (DE-129) , the lead ship of her class of destroyer escort , in commission from 1943 to 1946 List of ships with the same or similar names
USS Stewart (DE-238) – the sole surviving example of the Edsall-class; a museum ship in Galveston, Texas. USS Kretchmer (DE-329) received a Navy Unit Commendation for action three days after the war ended. USS Stanton (DE-247) won two battle stars in a single engagement sinking two U-boats with the USS Frost (DE-144).
The U.S.S. Edsall was found 200 miles east of Christmas Island, south of Java, by the Royal Australian Navy. The discovery has revealed the final resting place of more than 200 servicemen who died ...
Edsall was sunk in the Indian Ocean on 2 March 1942, south of Java. At 18:24 she received a direct hit from the battleship Hiei and at 18:35 another from the cruiser Tone . Edsall was also attacked by nine Aichi D3A dive bombers from Sōryū and eight from Akagi , which hit her with several bombs, leaving her dead in the water by 18:50.