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USS Albacore (SS-218) was a Gato-class submarine which served in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, winning the Presidential Unit Citation and nine battle stars for her service.
Albacore: SS-218 Gato class: Japanese home waters 7 November 1944: Presumed sunk by naval mine off northeastern Hokkaidō. Amberjack: SS-219 Gato class: Off New Britain: 16 February 1943: Sunk by Japanese torpedo boat Hiyodori and submarine chaser No. 18. Argonaut: SM-1 Off New Britain: 10 January 1943: Sunk by Japanese destroyers Isokaze and ...
Sep. 16—GROTON — Pamela LaMorte never knew her big brother. Pasquale Charles Carracino, of Newark, N.J., was among 85 submariners lost in 1944 when the Groton-built USS Albacore hit a mine off ...
Albacore: SS-218 7 November 1944: Lost to enemy mine Northeast of Hokkaido: Amberjack: SS-219 16 February 1943: Lost to enemy action by torpedo boat Hiyodori and submarine chaser No. 18 New Britain: Argonaut: SM-1 10 January 1943: Lost to enemy action by destroyers Isokaze and Maikaze: New Britain: Barbel: SS-316 4 February 1945: Lost to enemy ...
Seventy-seven Gato-class submarines were built during World War II, commissioned from November 1941 through April 1944. [1] The class was very successful in sinking Japanese merchant ships and naval vessels: the top three US submarines in tonnage sunk were Gatos, along with three of the top seven in number of ships sunk. [2]
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1943 Ship State Description USS De Haven United States Navy World War II: Operation Ke: The Fletcher-class destroyer was bombed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean two nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east of Savo Island, Solomon Islands with the loss of 167 of her 329 crew.
James William Blanchard (25 September 1903 – 5 March 1987) [1] [2] was an American submarine commander during the Pacific War, who received the Navy Cross for dealing a crippling blow to the Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō on 19 June 1944 during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, which led to her sinking later that day.
Sharks killed many drifting crew members. Gambier Bay was the only US Navy aircraft carrier to be sunk by surface naval gunfire during WWII. She lost 147 of her crew. USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76) was operating off Luzon on 8 January 1945 when at 07:46 a Ki-43 Oscar plunged down towards the carrier. The aircraft came under heavy anti-aircraft fire ...