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Today she is a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes striking the carrier within 30 seconds on 11 May 1945 off Okinawa, killing 390 men and wounding 264. The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II.
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 ...
Vieniba – A hospital ship that was sunk on 27 June by German aircraft. The ship was evacuating wounded military personnel and refugees from the Latvian port city of Liepaja. More than 800 people were killed; eight survivors reached the coast and another five were picked up by an escort torpedo-boat. 800 Military 1940 United Kingdom
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. ... The ship’s ...
Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Saturday that the wreck of a Japanese merchant ship, sunk in World War Two with 864 Australian soldiers on board, had been found in the South ...
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Sunk, floated, rebuilt by January 1944 at Puget Sound Moored starboard side to, at berth F-3. Maryland: BB-46 Damaged, two bomb hits, repaired by February 26, 1942 at Puget Sound Moored on Battleship row, inboard of Oklahoma at berth F-5, forward of Tennessee: West Virginia: BB-48 Sunk, floated, rebuilt by July 1944 at Puget Sound
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 ...