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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 but it continued aiming directly for the ...
USS Thompson minor damage in the vicinity of the bridge after an air burst and near misses from a shore battery at Songjin, North Korea, 13 casualties, 20 August 1952. USS Competent (AM-316) superficial damage and lost sweep gear after a shrapnel near miss from a shore battery at Pkg. 4-5, no casualties, 27 August 1952.
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Name Hull Number Location Date Cause Gamble: DM-15 off Iwo Jima 18 February 1945: Damaged by aircraft bombs and later scuttled. Miantonomah: CM-10 off of Le Havre, France 25 September 1944: Sunk by mine. Montgomery: DM-17 off Palau 17 October 1944: Severely damaged by a mine. Returned to US and decommissioned on 23 April 1945. Weehawken: CM-12 ...
USS Preston (DD–379) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during World War II. She was the fifth Navy ship named for Lieutenant Samuel W. Preston (1840–1865). She was sunk at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal , 14 November 1942.
The Bolster class were a series of rescue and salvage ships designed and built for the United States Navy during World War II. Rescue and salvage ships such as the Bolster class save battle-damaged combat ships from further damage and tow them to safety. Rescue, salvage and towing ships provide rapid fire fighting, pumping, battle damage repair ...
- Firsthand account of the first engagement of the battle by the captain of the Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze. Jameson, Colin G. (1944). "The Battle of Guadalcanal, 11–15 November 1942". Publications Branch, Office of Naval Intelligence, United States Navy (Somewhat inaccurate on the details of actual damage done to and actions by Japanese ships)
In the late 1980s, the ship was one of the first U.S. Navy ships to have women sailors aboard, the first were Boeing Vertol CH-46 pilots from Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 5 (HC-5). By 1991, and after a berthing retrofit accomplished in overhaul, the ship had a complement of both female officers and enlisted aboard.