how many american ships were sunk in ww2

Damage was negligible but the ship would make at Saipan before returning to combat in time for the Okinawa invasion. John D. Alden, Flush Decks & Four Pipes. USSMiantonomah(CM-10) sunk by a mine off Le Havre, France, 25 September 1944. 24 men were killed and missing, another nine were seriously wounded. PT-73 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Baliquias Bay, Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 15 January 1945. Crewmen recalled seeing the captain of a Japanese destroyer saluting the Johnston as she went down. The submarine was never heard from again. The crew set up camp in abandoned buildings at Constantine Harbor and would be rescued in days ahead. Hammann was alongside the stricken carrier transferring damage control parties when after 1200, Japanese submarine I-168 successfully penetrated the screen of protecting destroyers and fired a spread of four torpedoes. The pilot identified the destroyer and oiler as a cruiser and carrier, respectively. Although Edsall brazenly fired her torpedoes and main battery at the enemy ships, she was soon struck by dive bombers and hit by large-caliber naval gunfire. The fast, nimble little boat managed to sneak into the formation and detonated a charge alongside the hull of the Hutchins. Combat Air Patrol managed to shoot down close to fifty planes but still over a hundred planes would close in on the two destroyers and three Landing Craft Support. On April 9, 1963, it left port near Boston and commenced dive trials. Chester would earn 11 battle stars for her service in WWII. A second kamikaze hit the ship the next day on 6 January 1945, crashing into the starboard side signal bridge, and fatally injuring Rear Admiral Theodore E. Chandler commander of cruiser Division 4. After repairs and an overhaul, Shubrick was transferred to the Pacific theater. PT-67 destroyed by accidental fire while refueling in port, Tufi, New Guinea, 17 March 1943. Although the enemy plane was shot down, one of the torpedoes it launched hit the ship's stern, killing one man, damaging steering and the fantail. Prompt and effective damage control allowed the ship to remain in action to complete the bombardment. In 1941 Germans sank five Allied merchant ships off . The ship made it through the night, but by early morning the storm grew in intensity, and began to severely hamper the Warrington. USS LCT(6)-1075 sunk off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 10 December 1944. Later salvaged and used by Japanese. Control aft was demolished. After being towed home to the states, it was determined the ship was too badly damaged to be returned to service. Bailey returned to service in October 1943. Steam lines were ruptured, several compartments at the waterline were floated, power and steering were lost, and a number of fires broke out across the ship. USS SC-744 sunk by kamikaze attack in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 27 November 1944. The SSPaul Hamilton, steaming ahead of Lansdale, was struck by a torpedo at 21:00 and exploded in an enormous fireball, killing all 580 on board, as well as illuminating all nearby ships in the darkness. After laying smoke and guiding the escort carriers into a rain squall; Hoel charged the Japanese formation, heading straight for the battleships. Quincy had seen aircraft flares dropped over other ships in the task force, and had just sounded general quarters and was coming alert when the searchlights from the Japanese column came on. USSZellars(DD-777) was screening the battleship USSTennessee(BB-43) on the afternoon of 12 April off Okinawa when at 14:50, three Nakajima B6N "Jill's" were sighted approaching low on the water from the port quarter. She suffered thirty dead and thirty-six wounded. www.USMM.org 1998-2007. Maddox made her way back to Ulithi for repairs, and by May was back in the fight against Japan. USSLongshaw(DD-559) was en route to her patrol area on the morning of 18 May 1945, following a four-day period of fire support when at 07:19, the destroyer ran aground on a reef just south of Naha Airport. All except for 6 of Monaghan's crew perished in the sinking, the survivors clinging to rafts for several days, 256 of her men were gone. During the fight, Barton was firing at point-blank range on nearby enemy ships when suddenly the friendly cruiser Helena appeared directly in Barton's path. USSAulick(DD-569) was performing anti-submarine patrols near the entrance to Leyte Gulf on 29 November 1944 when at 1750 she was targeted by six "Oscar's". Less than 30 percent of U.S. and allied ships lost to U-boat attacks were in a convoy while they were sunk. USSHornbill(AMc-13) sunk after collision with the lumber schooner Esther Johnson in San Francisco Bay, California, 30 June 1942. She returned to active duty the day after the Battle of Midway ended. Control was reestablished in the conning tower, which soon received a hit from the starboard side. YP-97 lost due to Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USSGrayback(SS-208) was on her way home from her tenth patrol of the war, which had seen the sub sink four cargo vessels and damage two more. The survivors were transported to Japan on board different vessels, one of which was sunk by another US submarine, taking the lives of another twenty more Sculpin crewmen. USSSaratoga(CV-3) was hit and sent back for repairs multiple times during the war. The submarine was never seen or heard from again after leaving Midway, and was reported as "presumed lost" on 26 July 1944. 255 killed. Not repaired. USSBullhead(SS-332) was on her third patrol of the war near Bali when on 6 August 1945 the submarine reported she had made her way through the Lombok Strait en route to a rendezvous with a wolfpack in the Java Sea. USSBuchanan(DD-484) was operating with TF 67.4 on 13 November 1942 in "Ironbottom Sound" when the American ships engaged a Japanese surface task force of two battleships and fourteen destroyers at 0148. USSWadleigh(DD-499) was helping with sweeping mines out of the supply lanes near Kossol Roads off Palau on 23 September 1944, when she struck an unnoticed mine amidships that ripped into the bowels of the ship. Its 250lb bomb, with what was left of the plane, went through the wooden deck and exploded. Despite the billowing flames, the ship's crew was able to put out the fires (with help from the wake of USS South Dakota) by late afternoon, and all guns remained operational. PT-247 destroyed by Japanese shore batteries, off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 5 May 1944. USSGudgeon(SS-211) set off for her twelfth patrol of the war on 4 April 1944, stopping for fuel at Johnston Island before proceeding to the northern Marianas Islands area. The sub reported it had sunk a passenger-cargo ship in the Talbas Strait on 27 August 1943; this was the final message received from the Grayling. USSSkylark(AM-63) sunk by a mine off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 28 March 1945. The Spence's power and pumps failed when seawater damaged equipment on-board after the ship rolled seventy two degrees to port. Only 316 of the nearly 900 men set adrift after the sinking survived. USSLittle(DD-803) was patrolling at picket duty No.10 on 3 May 1945 in company five other ships when at 18:13 hours, incoming enemy aircraft were picked up on radar. A second Zero was splashed by the ship's port batteries. Her biggest prize included Japanese aircraft carrier Taiho during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. On 21 February 1945, Saratoga was repeatedly hit by five bombs and three kamikaze aircraft in a three-minute span, killing 123 of her crew and wounding 192. 50 men were killed during the battle. Concrete barge. Fires were quickly brought under control and the ship remained on station. USS LCT(5)-496 sunk in the English Channel, 2 October 1943. Sunk by German land-based aircraft torpedo. 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 blast carried away the bow of the ship forward of the bridge causing Benham to retreat from the battle. USS YC-886 lost at Guantanamo, Cuba, 3 February 1943. During the action in a pitch-black night, the two sides of ships mixed, firing on friend and foe alike. USSBelknap(APD-34) scrapped after being damaged beyond repair by kamikaze attack at Lingayen, Philippine Islands, 11 January 1945. The destroyer put up a barrage of fire but the incoming kamikaze struck the portside of the ship, its bomb exploding below decks starting fires and causing a list. 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. She returned to Espiritu Santo under her own power for emergency repairs on 23 October. Sunk after grounding on a reef. She received emergency repairs at Tonga and proceeded to Pearl Harbor for permanent repairs. The first two planes struck the ship on her portside at the waterline causing flooding and fires, while an "Oscar" slammed into her starboard side causing a large fire and stopping the ship dead in the water. USS Magdalena (YFB-687) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS YC-717 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. 37 of her crew were lost. USSDavid W. Taylor(DD-551) was bombardingChichi Jimaon 5 January 1945 when around 07:45, the ship was rocked by anunderwater explosion, most likely caused by a mine. USS YC-716 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Seawolf exchanged radar recognition signals with the submarine USSNarwhal(SS-167) at 0756 on the morning of 3 October off the island of Morotai, but was never heard from again. USS LST-750 sunk by Japanese aircraft off Los Negros, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 28 December 1944. USSRadford(DD-446) was operating off Luzon in Mariveles Bay on 14 February 1945, maneuvering to take the mined destroyer USS La Vallette in tow when the Radford itself struck a mine. USS YPD-22 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, January May 1942. She was the last Allied ship sunk by a kamikaze attack during World War II. Fanshaw Bay launched as many planes as possible to harry the Japanese ships while fleeing to the safe concealment of rain squalls. YP-270 destroyed by grounding, 30 June 1942. USSScamp(SS-277) left Midway Island on her eighth patrol of the war on 16 October 1944 to hunt Japanese shipping near the Bonin Islands. USS YMS-127 sunk in the Aleutian Islands, 10 January 1944. Over fifty rescue attempts were made by divers to reach men trapped inside the submarine, but all failed. As the trailing ship in the escort caravan, Kalinin Bay came under intense enemy shell fire. Of the 889 men aboard, 113 were killed or missing and approximately 30 others died of their wounds. Wreckage and an oil slick developed and the Japanese assumed the vessel had been destroyed. USS LCI(L)-92 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. Ralph Talbot limped away with her bridge on fire and listing heavily to starboard. The ship remained commissioned in the Navy until 1963. She was gone in less than thirty seconds. USS YW-50 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Control was again lost. . After leaving Tinian the ship stopped at Guam where a number of her crew who had completed their tours of duty were relieved by other sailors. Although both planes were downed, the second plane hit water a mere twenty-five yards from the destroyer and exploded; showering the ship with shrapnel. Colorado was scrapped in 1959. USSLiscome Bay(CVE-56) was operating off the Gilbert Islands, 24 November 1943 when she was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-175 around 05:10. She was scrapped in 1961. Her stern lowered in the dark waters, and her bow was distinctively rising. As Rowan turned to have all her guns engage the enemy, she was struck by a torpedo. USS LST-921 torpedoed by German submarine U-764 off the channel entrance to Bristol, England, 14 August 1944, and struck from the Navy list, 14 October 1944. USS LCT(5)-241 sunk off Salerno, Italy, 15 September 1943. Salvaged and repaired. The skeleton crew that had remained abandoned the Glennon, which floated until late 10 June 1944 when she sank. The crew of Hadley lost twenty-eight men and another sixty-seven wounded, but had shot down twenty-three enemy planes, including the ones who crashed into her. Nineteen men were killed and another twenty were seriously wounded. 2 more crewmen would die of their wounds. The first plane missed but its bomb caused a power failure on Luce, freezing her main guns just as the second plane slammed into the aft section of the ship. She would return to the Pacific by 26 February 1943. A bucket brigade battled the blaze on the gun deck and the starboard passage forward from that deck, and the wounded were moved to the captain's cabin, where doctors and corpsmen proceeded with their care. At first glance, the England (named for John England, a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor) was not an impressive vessel. While patrolling the Surigao Strait on the afternoon of 5 December 1944, a lone "Val" kamikaze managed to slip past her antiaircraft fire and struck the Mugford on her portside. This time she was hit by two bombs and two torpedoes and left dead in the water with a severe list. 51 were killed and 81 were wounded. USSPortland(CA-33) was among a force of five cruisers and eight destroyers under Daniel J. Callaghan on the night of 12 November 1942 which steamed to counter an approaching Japanese force. USSSonoma(ATO-12) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 24 October 1944. The ship made it back to San Francisco under her own power. One shell penetrated through a ventilator, killing two men as it tore into the carrier. USSPreston(DD-379) was sailing with TF 64 on 14 November 1942 en route to intercept a Japanese fleet making for the Marine-held airbase on Guadalcanal. 5 August 1864. Fires would be extinguished within fifteen minutes and Walke would remain on station until 9 January 1945. Fate unknown: possibly sunk by Japanese destroyer, Fate unknown: possibly lost to mines or sunk by, Fate unknown: believed sunk by Japanese destroyer, Most likely sunk by depth charges from Japanese destroyer. Maryland was repaired and placed in reserve after the war until she was scrapped in 1959. Over 100 aircraft took off. USSS-39(SS-144) was on her fifth war patrol heading across the Coral Sea to the Louisiade Archipelago when late on the night of 13 August 1942, the submarine ran aground on rocks just off Rossel Island. An A6M overshot the giant carrier and crashed into Halsey Powell steaming less than two hundred yards off the starboard bow of Hancock. USSRowan(DD-405) was assisting the landings in the Gulf of Salerno on 10 September 1942 when her convoy of ships was attacked by German E-boats shortly after midnight. Perhaps as a result of the concentrated fire, it then plunged down, striking below the bridge at the waterline, tearing a 9ft by 17.5ft hole, destroying the junior officers' quarters. USS YSP-46 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. YP-453 destroyed by grounding in the Bahama Islands, 15 April 1943. Fragments of debris and shrapnel would strike the Moale killing one sailor and wounding another ten men. Wasp sank with the loss of 193 dead and 366 wounded. The stern sank first shortly followed by the bow within 12 minutes. White Plains five-inch gun crew claimed six hits on heavy cruiser Chkai. Later on the 25th, a Japanese frigate picked up nine survivors of the Tang's crew, including her commanding officer and five men who had swum to the surface after the initial sinking. It is believed the sub suffered a depth control malfunction after one its own torpedoes circled back to strike the sub, which led to Grunion sinking and imploding. Although several of the enemy planes were downed, three planes managed to strike the Mahan. At 13:37 she scored a revenge hit with a fourteen-inch shell on the battery which had damaged her. USS YF-575 lost off Atlantic City, New Jersey, 6 May 1943. Early in the morning on June 4, the Japanese struck the island of Midway. McKean was engulfed in raging fire aft of the first smoke stack and sinking by the stern when order to abandon was given at 03:55. Hank put up a furious barrage of defensive fire which caused the kamikaze pilot to miss his target, splashing the sea just a few yards away and exploding. Although possible, researchers believe this was too far from where Grayling was assigned to operate. 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. USSRoss(DD-563) was conducting escort for minesweeping ships off Dinagat Island on 19 October 1944 when at 01:33 she struck a mine to port under the forward engine room and fireroom. USS LCT(5)-294 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. USSEmmons(DMS-22) sunk after being hit by five kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 6 April 1945. The torpedo hit the ship's bow, causing a magazine explosion that blew off the bow away from the ship. Although a wing was shot off by the crew as it came in, the suicide plane crashed Abner Read amidships starting a large fire. USS LCT(5)-23 sunk at Algiers, Algeria, 3 May 1943. YP-383 sunk by collision, 24 November 1944. Her crew suffered 64 dead and 71 wounded. By January 1942, German submarines had moved into American coastal waters and posed a serious threat to U.S. and Allied shipping. By 18:20, signal had been completely lost with the sub. During raids on Luzon on 25 November 1944, Intrepid was hit by two kamikaze aircraft which left 66 men dead, sending the ship home for repairs. After 12 hours the last fire was quenched. The docked submarine was hit by two bombs, one hit the subs conning tower and exploded outside the hull, while the second bomb struck a ballast tank and caused an explosion in the aft engine room which killed four men. Prompt and effective damage control prevented the fires from spreading and causing more explosions, allowing Columbia to remain on station. 18 men were wounded in the attack. USS LCI(L)-1065 sunk off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 24 October 1944. USS PC-1603 damaged by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 21 May 1945, and sunk 26 May 1945. Braine managed to make it back to the states under her own power with her remaining crew. USSStanly(DD-478) was performing radar picket duty off Okinawa on 12 April 1945 when she was targeted by two MXY-7 Ohka rocket-powered kamikaze gliders. USS YC-672 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. 11 of Gregory's crew were killed. Sunk after accidental collision with merchant tanker, Surrendered to Japanese forces and pressed into. A skeleton crew determined the damage was too extensive to repair the ship, so all useful equipment was removed and Barry was towed to be used as a decoy. USS YF-724 lost off the Farallone Islands, 22 March 1945. As the crew abandoned ship, Captain John P. Cromwell refused to leave his submarine out of fear he would be tortured by the Japanese into revealing information about the upcoming Tarawa landings; for his sacrifice he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. She also engaged the battleship Kongo, hitting the battleship's superstructure with her five-inch guns causing fires and casualties. The Japanese force consisted of 2 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 14 destroyers and 10 transports. USS YA-59 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Empress Augusta Bay, off Bougainville, Solomons. She was the . USS YC-857 lost off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 12 November 1943. Poor accuracy affected both sides, but the Allied fleet took more damage and was unable to attack the Japanese transports.
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