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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 ...
This is a list of U.S. military prisons and brigs operated by the US Department of Defense for prisoners and convicts from the United States military. Current military prisons [ edit ]
List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1943 Ship State Description USS Borie United States Navy World War II: The Clemson-class destroyer received severe battle damage, sustained whilst depth charging and ramming U-405 ( Kriegsmarine), which resulted in a surface battle with small arms, she receiving extensive hull damage that necessitated her scuttling. 30 of her 122 crew were killed
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 ...
The Portsmouth Naval Prison, built to be a modern correctional facility for a navy which had once disciplined by flogging and capital punishment, was rendered obsolete. After containing about 86,000 military inmates over its 66-year operation, the brig closed in 1974, its maintenance thereafter contributing to shipyard overhead .
Leonard Glenn Francis, nicknamed “Fat Leonard,” was also ordered to pay $20 million in restitution to the Navy, and fined $150,000 for his role in the scandal, according to the US Attorney’s ...
The wife of a US Navy officer recently transferred to US custody after being jailed in Japan called on President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to support his release.. Lt. Ridge Alkonis ...
US Navy officer Lt. Ridge Alkonis, who was jailed in Japan for negligent driving that resulted in the death of two people and was recently transferred to the United States has been paroled and ...