how many american ships were sunk in ww2

bomb which killed 51, wounded many more, knocked out an engine, and started several fires. While recharging her engines on the surface in a heavy fog, the crew of the sub did not notice they had drifted five miles away from their dead reckoning position. Despite the serious damage to the ship, her crew was able to save the Mayrant and make it back to a safe port. Fires on the flight deck caused ammunition within the burning aircraft and anti-aircraft guns to detonate, further complicating matters. 51 were killed and 81 were wounded. An explosion and large fire flared up simultaneously with a hit by a five-inch round from one of the other ships, which burst close to the carrier's bow below a gun sponson, killing and wounding several men. USSAlbert W. Grant(DD-649) was launching a torpedo attack on Japanese battleships during the Battle of Surigao Strait on 25 October 1944, when at 04:07 the destroyer was struck by several shells from both Japanese and American guns. Foundered off Cape Hatteras in the Great Atlantic hurricane of 1944 with the loss of all hands. Japanese records indicate she struck a mine off the shore of Hokkaido which was witnessed by a patrol boat. A few hours later, a second, larger explosion shook the Princeton, possibly caused by an explosion of one or more bombs in the magazine. On the 16th, Bonefish reported having sunk a 6,800 ton cargo ship and two days later was given permission to conduct a daytime patrol near Toyama Bay. While underway on 23 Aug, USS Tennessee collided with California after a steering malfunction. Twelve men scalded to death and eight more were wounded. PT-121 destroyed by Australian aircraft, mistaken identification, Bangula Bay, New Britain, 27 March 1944. USSO'Brien(DD-415) was escorting a convoy of troop transports in company with USSWasp(CV-7) on 15 September 1942 when the American ships were targeted by Japanese submarine I-19. USSCanberra(CA-70) joined TF 38 in October 1944, which was tasked with performing air raids on Okinawa and Taiwan, in preparation for the landings at Leyte. Her wounded were transferred off at Tulagi before she left. A bomb struck the ship's aft magazines which detonated in a tremendous explosion. YP-128 destroyed by grounding off Monterey, California, 30 June 1942. Grounded by Typhoon Louise. USS YPK-7 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. The plane smashed into the ship's main radio transmitter room spreading a large fire over the ship's superstructure, fortunately the plane had lost its bomb as it violently maneuvered to hit the ship, certainly sparing the ship more damage. Captain Jenkins survived the slaughter on the bridge and ordered the crew to begin clearing debris, jettisoning topside weight to correct the list, reducing the volume of sea water in the ship, and tending the wounded. USSAstoria(CA-34) on the morning of 7 August 1942 entered the waters between Guadalcanal and Florida Islands in the southern Solomons. The explosion severed the ship and everything aft of turret No.4 leaving her dead in the water. Presumed sunk by naval mine off northeastern. In pitch darkness, Louisville managed to take the crippled Chicago under tow and slowly headed south, away from the battle area, escorted by the rest of the task force. The submarine sank a troop ship, and severely crippled a second transport before the Asashimo maneuvered to drop nineteen depth charges. USSGambier Bay(CVE-73) was fired on and hit by multiple Japanese warships during the Battle off Samar when the highly outgunned and outnumbered task force "Taffy 3" was engaged by a surface group consisting of four battleships, including Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever built. Famous racing yacht. USS SC-694 sunk by aircraft off Palermo, Italy, 23 August 1943. USSGannet(AVP-8) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-653 off Bermuda, 7 June 1942. USS YA-65 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. The war would end before the destroyer could return to action, and Bryant would sit in reserve for thirty years before scrapping. The fire was nearly under control when about two minutes later, a second plane, likely attracted by the ship's glow against the darkness, struck the aft elevator shaft, exploding on impact, killing the majority of the fire-fighting party and destroying the fire fighting salt-water distribution system, thus preventing any further damage control. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993. 88 of her crew went down with her. USS LCS(L)(3)-26 sunk by Suicide boat off Mariveles, Corregidor Channel, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 February 1945. The ship had taken 45 hits. Former destroyer converted to damage control hulk. USSRenshaw(DD-499) was escorting landing craft through Surigao Strait into the Mindanao Sea on 21 February 1945 when she was targeted by a Japanese midget submarine that hit her with a torpedo. USSMcFarland(DD-237) was operating near Guadalcanal as a tender and transport when on 19 Oct 1942 she was attacked by 9 dive bombers. YP-88 destroyed by grounding at Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, 28 October 1943. Suffering from the effects of at least 65 hits, Astoria fought for her life. The ship took an incoming "Val" under fire, causing the plane to miss the ship by a mere seventy-five feet. USSSaratoga(CV-3) was hit and sent back for repairs multiple times during the war. Grounded on 26 February 1944 and sunk by Japanese shore batteries. These hit further aft in the machinery spaces, breaking the keel, flooding the forward engine and boiler rooms, and breaching bulkheads that allowed water into the aft engine room. Laid up as a constructive loss. The destroyer was towed to Boston, MA where she had a new stern installed. The ship sank at 12:50 leaving her crew stranded in the fierce storm. USS YCF-29 lost en route to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, March 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 28 April 1945. Exposure to the elements, dehydration from the hot sun during the day and hypothermia at night, as well as severe desquamation due to exposure to oily salt water, and frequent shark attacks slowly whittled down the survivors. As Vincennes's list increased to port, the order to abandon ship was given at 0230. While underway on 23 Aug, USS Tennessee collided with California after a steering malfunction. Marblehead underwent extensive repairs before being sent to the Atlantic theater for the rest of the war. The retreat by Kurita's surface force, however, did not end the ordeal for White Plains and her fellow warships. Moments after the bombs struck, Arizona was torn apart by a gigantic magazine explosion that disintegrated most of the forward part of the ship. The sub had been considered lost with all hands by the Navy, however stories circulated amongst POW's held on Palawan that at least four men survived the sinking of Robalo after striking a mine and were soon after captured by the Japanese. However, after the war, Japanese records did not report sinking a submarine near Kiska when the submarine disappeared. Cushing was engaged by up to three Japanese destroyers at ranges closer than 3,000 yards. Two men were killed and 34 wounded. It would be struck by another kamikaze later that day, in the same spot the first plane had hit. USSBush(DD-529) was operating radar pickett duty off Okinawa on 6 April 1945 when at 14:30, several waves of kamikazes were detected approaching on radar. Intentionally beached after flooding. During the savage storm which at times had winds in excess of one hundred forty miles per hour, Spence was helplessly tossed about in the huge waves. Fisheries II (converted yacht) destroyed to prevent capture at Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942. USSMinneapolis(CA-36) was sailing on 30 November 1942 as flagship of TF 67 which consisted of Fletcher, Perkins, Maury, Drayton, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Pensacola, Honolulu, Northampton, Lamson, and Ladner to intercept a Japanese task force consisting of 8 destroyers; six of them carrying drums full of supplies in a midnight attempt to reinforce and resupply Guadalcanal. The crew abandoned their destroyer and were rescued by her fellow tin cans. PT-165 lost in transit, tanker torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-17, 100 miles south of Nouma, New Caledonia, 24 May 1943. USSWake(PR-3) captured at Shanghai, China, 7 December 1941. Either sunk by Japanese or destroyed to prevent capture. USSLittle(DD-79) was acting as a high-speed transport ferrying vital supplies and reinforcements to Guadalcanal when at 01:00 on 5 September 1942, Little and her sister ship Gregory encountered three Japanese destroyers of the "Tokyo Express". USSJuneau(CL-52) was engaged in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942, firing on an enemy destroyer when she was hit by a torpedo on her port side from Amatsukaze causing flooding and a severe list. USS LCT(6)-1050 sunk off Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 27 July 1945. USS APc-35 grounded off New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 22 September 1943. Concrete barge. PT-77 sunk in error by the USSConyngham(DD-371) and USSLough(DE-586) near Talin Point, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 1 February 1945. The sub was reported as presumed lost by the navy on 10 April 1943. USSWasp(CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. The ship returned to New York for repairs and rejoined the war in January 1943. The ship became engulfed in billowing flames and within a few minutes, the crew abandoned the ship. After sending by radio and signal lamp: "Warning! On 30 September 1943 while engaging Japanese barges in New Georgia Sound ("The Slot"), a damaged friendly destroyer attempting to rejoin the formation collided with Patterson, nearly breaking off the ship's bow forward of the No.1 gun, which eventually did separate. USS LCT(5)-208 sunk off Algeria, 20 June 1943. Astoria turned over on her port beam, rolled slowly, and settled by the stern, disappearing completely by 12:16. The ship suffered 14 dead and 23 wounded from the attack. Perry (converted small patrol vessel) destroyed to prevent capture at Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942. USS YP-17 lost due to Japanese occupation of Guam and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. The Shubrick was towed to Malta and was able to make the US for permanent repairs on only one screw. Japanese records examined postwar indicate the attacking Japanese escort ships had observed oil and wood chips covering the area where depth charges had been dropped. The sub was never heard from again, and the Navy reported the sub was presumed to be lost with all hands on 7 June 1944. Sumner was damaged by a near missed bomb which threw fragments across the deck wounding thirteen men, she was also hit by a shore battery which caused negligible damage. The first was shot down but the second plane, although afire and shedding large pieces, continued to come in. 5 men were killed during the battle. USS LST-228 destroyed by grounding near Bahia Angra Island, Azores, 21 January 1944. A second kamikaze hit the port side of the bridge. The most likely incident which caused the loss of Scamp occurred on 11 November 1944 just north of Iwo Jima, when a Japanese patrol plane led a coastal defense vessel to a trail of oil which was then heavily depth charged until a larger slick appeared on the water. The plane plowed in under the first 40mm gun (aft), crashing through the hangar deck and striking the ship's magazines. The plane's bomb pierced through the portside before exploding outside of the ship. Darter pursued the damaged cruiser until at 0005 on 24 October when the submarine ran aground on Bombay Shoal. USSWadsworth(DD-516) was providing fire support to landings on Bougainville on 1 November 1943 during the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay when around 7:45 a group of six enemy dive bombers targeted Wadsworth and her sister ship bombarding the beach. Merchant Marine in WWII. Afterwards Scorpion departed to patrol the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, from which the sub was not seen or heard from ever again. At about midnight on 13 November 1942, San Francisco, in company with heavy cruiser USS Portland, the light cruisers Atlanta, Helena, and Juneau, and eight destroyers, entered Lengo Channel. USSBunker Hill(CV-17) was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes striking the carrier within 30 seconds on 11 May 1945 off Okinawa, killing 390 men and wounding 264. Gambier Bay was soon dead in the water as the battleship Yamato closed to point-blank range. The collision caused extensive damage to her bow. The crew was ordered to abandon the fast-sinking ship. While observing attacks on near-by ships, the crew of Beatty spotted an incoming Junkers Ju88 coming in low on the water. Around the same moment Abele was hit by the A6M, an incoming Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber released a MXY-7 Ohka. At 1416, an already-damaged torpedo bomber dropped its torpedo off San Francisco's starboard quarter. Numerous salvos of depth charges damaged the sub enough to force it to the surface and attempt a gun battle, but was no match for the destroyers main battery. The five Sullivan brothers onboard Juneau (CL-52) at the time of her commissioning ceremonies at the New York Navy Yard, 14 February 1942. Her damage was negligible and she continued to fire at any enemy ship within range. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943. Two escorting enemy destroyers Sazanami and Ushio, dropped depth charges on and severely damaged Perch. All were lost with the ship following the 13 November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. During the Battle of Okinawa she was hit by a kamikaze "Oscar" that struck her superstructure deck, killing four men and wounding twenty-three, but luckily the plane's bomb was a dud. The flaming plane crashed into the two smoke stacks some fifteen feet from the bridge crew before bouncing into the water causing significant damage. USS YC-669 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. On 12 April 1945, Tennessee was hit by a low-flying kamikaze on the starboard bow, crashing into the signal bridge. The Spence's power and pumps failed when seawater damaged equipment on-board after the ship rolled seventy two degrees to port. USSHoel(DD-533) was operating as escort for "Taffy 3" on the morning of 25 October 1944 off Samar, when a huge Japanese task force of battleships and cruisers suddenly appeared over the horizon coming straight for the small American ships. Only 11 men survived on a lifeboat for more than 36 hours before being rescued. Japanese records indicate the only submarine action occurring on 3 April, which was attacked with depth charges from destroyers and a plane until an oil slick developed. Escorting vessels attacked the American submarine with depth charges until wood chips and oil came to the surface. USSColhoun(DD-801) was providing fire support for Marines assaulting Iwo Jima on 1 March 1945 when she was hit by a shell from a Japanese shore battery which killed one man and wounded another sixteen. The plane hit the ship's aft quarter, and penetrated two decks before its bomb exploded, killing 13 and wounding 44, and knocking out her rear turrets. USS YA-59 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. The plane's bomb detonated, knocking out all power in the ship, and possibly breaking the keel. USS LST-203 destroyed by grounding near Nanumea, Ellice Islands, 2 October 1943. Capsized by carrier-based aircraft torpedoes and raised in 1943 but not repaired. PT-493 destroyed by Japanese warships, Surigao Strait, Philippine Islands, 25 October 1944. The brothers are (from left to right): Joseph . Ingraham proceeded through in heavy fog and low visibility when suddenly the oil tanker USSChemung appeared out of the thick fog. (1995) ISBN 155-7509-14X. USSBeatty(DD-640) was performing convoy escort duty in the Mediterranean off the coast of Algeria during the evening of 6 November 1943 when her group of ships came under air attack from Luftwaffe aircraft. USSHambleton(DD-455) was participating in the Operation Torch landings when on the evening of 11 November 1942 the ship was hit by a torpedo from German submarine U-173 on her portside amidships. She would take part in an operation to prevent the Japanese from reinforcing their island garrisons on Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutians. Glennon was towed in an attempt to salvage her but on 9 June 1945, a German shore battery found its range on the ship and hit her with salvos of shells. Although the fires were extinguished, seven men had been killed, thirty-three wounded and there were serious concerns for the integrity of the ship's hull. The blast had enough force to rupture a fire main, sever electrical cables, and even eject depth charges from the bomb bays of the Avengers stored within the hangar deck. Her crew suffered 64 dead and 71 wounded. The commander of Meredith decided to continue to deliver the urgently needed supplies. USSHonolulu(CL-48) was damaged by a near-miss bomb during the attack on Pearl Harbor, requiring repairs. USSLansdale(DD-426) was escorting a convoy off the coast of Algeria during the night of 20 April 1944 when the convoy came under concentrated attacks by Luftwaffe bombers. USSOahu(PR-6) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1942. USSReno(CL-96) was sailing with TF 38 east of the San Bernardino Strait on the night of 3 November 1944 when she was targeted by Japanese submarine I-41. Debris and oil were then observed to float to the surface where the charges were dropped, enough to convince the Japanese they had sunk the submarine.

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