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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 ...
Goya – The German Navy transport ship was torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine L-3 on 16 April. An estimated 6,000–7,000 civilians and German troops died, 183 were rescued. An estimated 6,000–7,000 civilians and German troops died, 183 were rescued.
Name Hull number Ship class Location Date Cause Arizona: BB-39 Pennsylvania class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Sunk by carrier-based aircraft bombs. : Oklahoma: BB-37 : Nevada class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Capsized by carrier-based aircraft torpedoes and raised in 1943 but not repaired. Sank 17 May 1947 in a storm while being towed to San Francisco for scrapping. : Note - USS Utah ...
Wilhelm Gustloff. Cruise ship converted into a military transport serving as evacuation ship. Germany. 30 January 1945. S-13. Soviet Union. 6,500 [3] Goya. Freighter converted into a troop transport serving as evacuation ship.
USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50/APA-22), formerly SS Excalibur, was a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War II commanded by Captain Robert McLanhan Smith Jr. A part of the Center Attack Group of Admiral Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force, Operation Torch, Joseph Hewes was sunk on November 11, 1942 by the German submarine U-173 in Fedala Roads off French Morocco coast during the ...
HMS Centurion, old battleship sunk as a blockship to form part of "Gooseberry" breakwater of the Mulberry harbour on Sword beach; Courbet, Free Naval French Forces, former battleship, sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater on Sword beach; Forbin, Free Naval French Forces, patrol boat, sunk as a artificial dike in "Arromanches"on Gold Beach
As a result, the Army lost almost all of its big vessels. Many of the Army vessels were transferred to Navy with the transport types becoming components of the new Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS, now MSC) under the Navy. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non-commissioned utility vessels.
List of ships at Dunkirk. This list consists of all major [a] naval and merchant ships involved in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of allied troops from the Dunkirk area from 26 May to 4 June 1940. The operation was administered by the British Admiralty with the Royal Navy providing the bulk of large vessels.