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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 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 ...
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.
During World War II, the United States Navy purchased two Great Lakes side-wheel paddle steamers and converted them into freshwater aircraft carrier training ships. Both vessels were designated with the hull classification symbol IX and lacked hangar decks, elevators or armaments. The role of these ships was for the training of pilots for ...
World War II: The transport ship was bombed and sunk in Allied air raids at Hamburg between 30 March and 8 April. She was refloated in 1948, repaired and entered West German service in 1950 as Clare Grammerstorf. [6] Elbing Germany: World War II: The cargo ship was damaged by artillery shelling and beached at Schweinesand. She was later ...
This is a list of ships sunk by missiles.Ships have been sunk by unguided projectiles for many centuries, but the introduction of guided missiles during World War II changed the dynamics of naval warfare. 1943 saw the first ships to be sunk by guided weapons, launched from aircraft, although it was not until 1967 that a ship was sunk by a missile launched from another ship outside a test ...
List of submarines of World War II; List of United States Navy ships; List of United States Navy losses in World War II § Submarines (SS) - abbreviated list; List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II § Submarine (SS) - detailed list; The NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft was a non-commissioned nuclear submarine operated by ...
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1945 Ship State Description CH-28 Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The No.13-class submarine chaser was bombed and sunk in the Balintang Channel) by North American P-51 Mustang aircraft of the 3rd and 4th Squadrons, 3rd Air Commando Group, United States Army Air
World War II aircraft carriers of the United States (2 C, 55 P) World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States (2 C, 1,125 P) World War II auxiliary ships of the United States (15 C, 1,106 P)