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  2. List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World ...

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    The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973. USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast ...

  3. Battle of Okinawa - Wikipedia

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    Battle & non-battle casualties: 94,136 soldiers and sailors dead (all causes) [e] 4,037 dead from Yamato task force [21] 7,401 captured (by 30 June) [22] [f] Total casualties: ~105,000 to 110,000 Materiel: 1 battleship sunk 1 light cruiser sunk 5 destroyers sunk 9 other warships sunk 1,430 aircraft lost [23] 27 tanks destroyed

  4. List of maritime disasters in World War II - Wikipedia

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    This was the greatest loss of life in a single warship in World War II. 2,498 Navy 1944 Japan: Yoshino Maru – The Japanese troopship, sailing to Borneo in Convoy MI-11, was torpedoed and sunk 280 nautical miles (520 km) north-north west of Cape Mayraira, Luzon by USS Parche: 2,495 Military 1944 Japan

  5. List of United States Navy losses in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Name Hull number Ship class Location Date Cause Arizona: BB-39 Pennsylvania class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Sunk by bombers from aircraft carrier Hiryƫ: 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 ...

  6. Operation Hailstone - Wikipedia

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    Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon: Operations Against Truk by Carrier Task Force 58, 17 and 18 February 1944, and the Shipwrecks of World War II. Oregon: Resource Publications. ISBN 1-59752-347-X. Peattie, Mark (1992). Nan'Yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series). University of Hawaii Press.

  7. Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign - Wikipedia

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    The suicide bombers proved effective, sinking 34 ships and damaging hundreds of others, [1] but they nevertheless failed to stop American reinforcements from arriving on the island. On 7 April the large Japanese battleship Yamato was sent out to use a kamikaze method, codenamed Ten-Go , but it was sunk before it could attack the invasion fleet.

  8. List of battleships of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Ideally displacements will be as they were at either the end of the war, or when the ship was sunk. The battleship was a capital ship built in the first half of the 20th century. At the outbreak of war, large fleets of battleships—many inherited from the dreadnought era decades before—were considered one of the decisive forces in naval ...

  9. Sunken US WWII warship that went down with more than 200 ...

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    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.

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