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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. 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 ...

  4. Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    SS Cyclops is sunk 160 miles south of Halifax, heralding the start of a U-boat campaign that saw approximately 200 merchant vessels sunk within 10 miles of the east coast of the US. January 30, 1942 Convoy SC 67 departs from Halifax and picks up a transatlantic escort in Newfoundland, which accompanies the convoy as far as Northern Ireland.

  5. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [11] [12] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter ...

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

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    Chiyoda – sunk with her entire crew of around 1,470, possibly the largest vessel to be lost with all hands in World War II. 1,470 Navy 1941 United Kingdom: HMS Hood – The battlecruiser was attacked and sunk by the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May. Of the 1,418 crew aboard, three survived. [9] 1,415 Navy 1944 Japan

  7. 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 ...

  8. USS Wisconsin (BB-64) - Wikipedia

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    USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship.Completed in 1944, the ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Philippines campaign and the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

  9. Battle of Okinawa - Wikipedia

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    The numbers correspond to recorded deaths during the Battle of Okinawa from the time of the American landings in the Kerama Islands on 26 March 1945 to the signing of the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, in addition to all Okinawan casualties in the Pacific War in the 15 years from the Manchurian Incident, along with those who died in ...