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The AT6 Monument is a granite memorial to Royal Air Force cadets who were killed while on a training flight during World War II. It stands on Big Mountain, north of Moyers, Oklahoma, in the United States, and was dedicated on February 20, 2000—the 57th anniversary of the deadly crashes.
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 ...
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six , protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic.
HMS Royal Oak Royal Navy 833 killed [65]: 14 October 1939 [66: Scapa Flow [67]: Capsized under 33 meters (108 ft) of water. [68]: Royal Oak ' s bell is the centerpiece to a memorial to those who died aboard Royal Oak at St Magnus' Cathedral in Kirkwall. [69]: Bretagne: French Navy: 977 killed [70]: 3 July 1940 [71]: Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria [71]: Scrapped [72]: —. Kilkis [h]: Royal Hellenic ...
[citation needed] Five crew members were found killed at the crash site and the bodies of the remaining two crew were located and identified by 11 January. [33] 12 January 1944 B-24D-165-CO, 42-72887, [34] c/n 2447, [citation needed] of Biggs Field, Texas, made a crash landing 30 miles (48 km) north of Biggs following mechanical failure.
The remains of the century-old Navy destroyer USS Stewart were found some 3,500 feet deep on the ocean floor in the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary – about 50 miles from San Francisco ...
Then, when the war ended, the warship was found afloat in Kure, Japan, and was recommissioned back into the US Navy. In a post-war era naval exercise, USS Stewart was deliberately sunk on May 24 ...
The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol, the Navy’s History and Heritage Command said ...