Sunk by gunfire from Japanese destroyers. USS LCT(5)-66 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 12 April 1945. USSSonoma(ATO-12) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 24 October 1944. Nineteen were killed and seventy-two wounded. The destroyer responded with effective fire onto the German battery that hit her, who did not fire again for the rest of the bombardment. Williamsburg VA: Mill Neck Publications, 1997. The submarine's wreck was broken up by naval bombing practice and still sits where she ran aground in 1944, albeit in decaying ruins. Despite the damage, Louisville continued bombarding enemy positions and shot down several planes before she put in for repairs. USS LST-531 sunk by German motor torpedo boats in Lyme Bay, England, 28 April 1944. PT-63 destroyed by accidental fire while refueling in port, Hamburg Bay, Emirau Island, 18 June 1944. The navy listed her as lost in action with all sixty hands. While the crew fought fires, she was stalked by additional kamikazes which also sank the destroyer Colhoun. In fact, the small ship was a coastal defense vessel which quickly opened fire on the S-44, prompting the sub to start an emergency dive, but it was too late. In total 687 of Juneau's crew died as a result of her sinking; including all five Sullivan brothers. During the battle, which raged for over an hour, St. Louis was hit by a torpedo that twisted her bow but caused no serious casualties. In the first attack wave a torpedo passed ahead and a second hit Raleigh portside amidships. USS LCI(L)-684 sunk off Samar, Philippine Islands, 12 November 1945. USS YC-654 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Preston was hit by numerous heavy shells from Nagara that knocked out her firerooms and started large fires which better illuminated Preston for her enemies to see. After 12 hours the last fire was quenched. USS LCI(L)-20 sunk off Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944. USS YC-857 lost off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 12 November 1943. USS YC-668 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Because the submarine was ordered to northern Celebes, it is most likely Shark was sunk by the Japanese destroyerYamakaze(1936) with five-inch gunfire while the sub was surfaced at 01:30 on 11 February 1942 off Menado. In her five patrols she sank a record thirty-three ships. The fires were extinguished by 1821. USS YPD-22 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, January May 1942. After the battle, White Plains was repaired and returned to service to ferry fighters to Okinawa. La Vallette was hit by one torpedo in her forward engine room, causing severe damage; 22 men were killed. The closing ships opened fire from about 14,500 yards, and, as screening ships engaged the cruisers and laid down concealing smoke, Kalinin Bay shifted her fire, trading shots with Japan's Destroyer Squadron 10. The exact circumstances which led to loss of Pompano and her seventy-three crewmen remains unknown to this day. Miraculously, her crew suffered no fatalities. USSMugford(DD-389) was covering the 7 Aug 1942 landings on Guadalcanal when at 1320, a large Japanese airstrike attempted to disrupt the landings. Luckily the ship suffered no casualties during the battle. 10 men were killed and 8 were wounded. The crew was ordered to abandon the fast-sinking ship. Inoguchi, Rikihei, Captain, Commander Tadashi Nakajima, and Roger Pineau. Strange ships entering the harbor!" She would return to the Pacific by 26 February 1943. USSTucker(DD-374) was escorting a cargo ship into Espiritu Santo on 4 August 1942 when as she was heading in through the western entrance, the ship struck a friendly mine. PT-311 destroyed by enemy mine, Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, 18 November 1944. The two sides began to open fire on one another and the battle quickly turned into a chaotic and confused close-range melee in the pitch-black dark. The sub had been reporting to Soerabaja, and patrolling the Strait of Malacca, and was to proceed to cover the passage east of the Bangka Strait. Yamato's third salvo was a close straddle landing at 07:04. USS LST-460 sunk by kamikaze attack off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 21 December 1944. At 02:00, Vincennes heeled to starboard in an attempt to evade enemy gunfire, only to be hit by Japanese torpedoes. Probably captured or destroyed by Japanese. Out of a crew of almost 1,200; 168men were killed, either during the battle or while the men were adrift. At 17:25, a second plane dove on the ship, crashing in between the stacks and nearly breaking the ship in half. A slick of oil appeared as the sub went down making almost certain the she did not survive. At 18:18, the torpedoes stored in the aft end of the ship finally detonated, collapsing the flight deck and launching debris onto the destroyers who were rescuing survivors. Fires on the flight deck caused ammunition within the burning aircraft and anti-aircraft guns to detonate, further complicating matters. Sunk by Japanese shore defense batteries. USS PGM-27 destroyed by grounding during typhoon at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 October 1945. USSLong(DMS-12) sunk by kamikaze attack in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 January 1945. 28 men were wounded. One of these planes, a "Val", made a suicide run that struck the Drayton's No. USS YW-58 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USSWilliam D. Porter(DD-579) was patrolling off Okinawa on 10 June 1945, when at 08:15 she was targeted by a kamikaze "Val". YP-492 sunk by collision off east Florida, 8 January 1943. Many salvos exploded close aboard or passed directly overhead; and, though no destroyer fire hit Kalinin Bay directly, she took ten more eight-inch hits from the now obscured cruisers. The plane plowed in under the first 40mm gun (aft), crashing through the hangar deck and striking the ship's magazines. Two men were killed and 34 wounded. The submarine sank a troop ship, and severely crippled a second transport before the Asashimo maneuvered to drop nineteen depth charges. Deflected by the gun's shield, the shell ricocheted over her flight deck. USS YF-575 lost off Atlantic City, New Jersey, 6 May 1943. An order went out to blow main ballast but it was too late. Houston was engaged on all sides at ranges never greater than 5000 yards, taking many hits, including a hit on the bridge which killed the captain. Forty-six members of her crew were lost with the ship, but luckily two hundred forty one were saved. USS YSP-46 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS LST-353 sunk by internal explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944. USSSheepscot(AOG-24) scrapped after being damaged beyond repair by grounding off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 5 June 1945. On 27 November 1944 she was hit by two kamikazes. Grounded and sunk. USS LST-448 sunk by Japanese aircraft off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 5 October 1943. The first three were shot down, but the fourth and last in line crashed into No.1 and No.2 five-inch turrets, knocking out both and starting a large fire. Although their ship was down by the bow and listing heavily to port, the destroyer's crew got the engines working again and enabled Grant to retire to friendlier waters. USSKitkun Bay(CVE-71) had been dodging shells from Japanese cruisers off Samar on the morning of 25 October 1944 when her task force "Taffy 3" was hit by suicide planes. Another twenty seven crewmen were wounded during the action. Fortunately the ship's crew was able to bring her safely toSaipan by 7 January 1945 under her own power. While observing attacks on near-by ships, the crew of Beatty spotted an incoming Junkers Ju88 coming in low on the water. The Leutze was towed away from the combat area for repairs but the end of the war left her only for the scrap yard. Louisville was back on the gun line by 9 June. USSWashington(BB-56) was damaged when she collided with USS Indiana during refueling maneuvers during the Marshall Islands campaign in 1944. Another shell passed under one of her Bofors guns, tearing the face off of one of her crew. USS YA-52 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. In a raid lasting 17 minutes; Plunkett was struck by a 550lb. USS YTM-467 lost in the Marshall or Gilbert Islands, March 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 9 June 1944. On 24 October 1944, while sailing with TF 38, Birmingham came to the assistance of the stricken carrier Princeton, coming alongside to help fight fires, when at 15:24, a magazine detonated on board Princeton causing extensive damage to Birmingham's superstructure. 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. USSDale(DD-290) was supporting operations in Buna as a high speed transport named SS Masaya when on 28 March 1943 she was attacked by five dive bombers, 6 miles off Oro Bay. Decommissioned on 18 July 1945. As she made headway the ship gradually leaked more water. The attack killed 16 men and wounded another 37. USSTrigger(SS-237) was on her twelfth patrol of the war in the East China Sea hunting cargo ships in March 1945. Over the next 24 hours, attempts were made to tow the ship but after these efforts failed she was scuttled. USSMount Hood(AE-11) destroyed by explosion at Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944. She was hit by a torpedo, several 250kg bombs, and possibly an 800kg bomb. USSBullard(DD-660) was providing anti-aircraft support for the landings on Okinawa when at 13:57 on 11 April 1945, an enemy plane made a run on the destroyer. USSPerkins(DD-377) had been operating as part of the New Guinea campaign in the fall of 1943 when on 28 November 1943 she sailed from Milne Bay for Buna. The seriousness of her damage would mean that Howorth would have to put in to the states for repairs. The eight survivors of the Flier escaped back home onboard the submarine Redfin. St. Today she is a museum ship in New York City. USS LSMR-194 sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 May 1945. On 3 February 1945, Barbel sent out a message reporting to her nearby wolfpack that she had been attacked on three occasions by Japanese submarine hunting aircraft. The suicide plane ran a parallel course with Haggard but turned sharply towards the ship's starboard beam, striking the water just a few yards from the ship. 2 turret to shoot out the offending light. Followup to a followup: The following "troopships" were sunk in WWII. At 1416, an already-damaged torpedo bomber dropped its torpedo off San Francisco's starboard quarter. Four of Natoma Bay's crew were wounded while one officer was killed. On January 21, a plane returning from a sortie made a normal landing, taxied forward abreast of the ship's island and disintegrated in a blinding explosion that killed 50 men and wounded 75. USS LCT(6)-1090 sunk off Luzon, Philippine Islands, 26 March 1945. (No claim made by a U-boat.). USSCaldwell(DD-605) was escorting landing craft at Ormoc on 12 December 1944 when at 0805 she was jumped by several enemy planes. 80 miles northeast of Laysan Island, southeast of Midway, Approximately 7.5 miles NNE of Wildwood, NJ. The resulting explosion detonated the ship's aft magazine storage enveloping the destroyer in flame. USSGansevoort(DD-608) was operating near Mindanao on 30 December 1944 protecting unloading landing craft when at 1548 an enemy plane was observed dropping a bomb on a friendly ship and then turning towards the Gansevoort. Six were shot down, but the aircraft launched at least five torpedoes, one of which hit the carrier's starboard quarter. After major repairs and an overhaul, Indianapolis received orders to undertake a top secret mission: to deliver enriched uranium and other important components of the Little Boy atomic device. Juneau withdrew from the action, and after the melee was over proceeded to Espiritu Santo with other ships damaged in the night's action. YP-270 destroyed by grounding, 30 June 1942. The ship was sunk by demolition charges by her own crew, going down at 20:15 on 13 November 1942. USS YC-899 lost off Key West, Florida, 29 September 1942. USSChester(CA-27) had been bombarding Taroa Island on 1 February 1942 when she came under heavy air attack from land-based dive bombers. 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. The plane's bomb detonated inside the ship, killing three men outright and wounding eighteen others. Before giving the order to abandon ship, the crew of Chevalier fired a torpedo at a nearby Japanese destroyer, which exploded and sank soon afterwards. USSPontiac(AF-20) scrapped after foundering off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 30 January 1945. PT-28 damaged beyond repair in a storm at Dora Harbor, Alaska, 12 January 1943. USSSaratoga(CV-3) was hit and sent back for repairs multiple times during the war. The sub never arrived back at base and repeated attempts to contact her crew went unanswered. USSBoyd(DD-544) was participating in the bombardment of Nauru Island on 8 December 1943 when she received orders at 10:33 to rescue the crew of a downed plane which landed in the water off the island. But over 100 of Juneau's crew had survived the sinking, and were left stranded in shark-infested waters for over eight days before only 10 men were finally rescued. Honolulu shifted fire to an enemy destroyer, which was immediately hit and disappeared. Despite valiant efforts of her crew to save the ship, the fires were out of control and ignited the forward magazine. Former LST-39. YP-438 destroyed by grounding at Port Everglades, Florida, 20 March 1943. Some of those ship losses were within site of land . The plane then circled and completed its kamikaze mission with a suicide crash into Twiggs on the ship's aft section. The ship suffered no casualties during the raid. USS YFD-20 lost off California, 31 January 1943. PT-68 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture near Vincke Point, New Guinea, 1 October 1943. USSGannet(AVP-8) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-653 off Bermuda, 7 June 1942. Two bombs were released; one of them penetrated the flight deck and detonated below, setting off a series of explosions among the fully gassed planes on the forward third of the hangar deck. The plane's bomb penetrated the deck to explode in the aft engine room. On 16 April 1945, a kamikaze aircraft dove through the flight deck, killing eight and wounding 21, but the ship was landing planes again within three hours. USS YC-653 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Merchant Marine suffered the highest rate of casualties of any service in World War II. The second bomb passed through the hangar deck, ruptured the fire main on the second deck, and exploded near the starboard side. Damage control was able to save the ship. USS LCS(L)(3)-49 sunk by suicide boat off Mariveles, Corregidor Channel, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 February 1945. USSRandolph(CV-15) was hit by a Japanese twin-engine "Frances" type flying level on the starboard side. Although structural damage was minor, a fire broke out and quickly spread due to burning gasoline, thus causing further explosions. The enemy planes scored a direct hit amidships which caused flooding and knocked out all power. The Shubrick was towed to Malta and was able to make the US for permanent repairs on only one screw. Luckily nobody was killed or seriously wounded by the loss of S-36. The submarine was never seen nor heard from again. The ship's Commanding Officer George Fleming Davis was mortally wounded by the crash but refused to be carried away for medical treatment until he was assured by his crew the ship would be saved; he would posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. After the war she participated in Operation Magic Carpet. The ship would receive repairs at Pearl Harbor and return to service by 6 February 1943. USSHaggard(DD-555) was operating as a screen for Task Force 58 on 29 April 1945 when at 16:53 the ship was targeted by two A6M kamikazes which dove from astern. Destroyed with explosives 14 January 1946. USS ATR-98 sunk in collision off the Azores Islands, 12 April 1944. USSWilliam B. Preston(DD-344) was anchored off Darwin, Australia on 19 Feb 1942 when over 240 Japanese aircraft bombed the area in a massive air strike. Gunfire and ramming from a German minesweeper. USS YM-13 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 22 February 1942. Not repaired. The bomb load penetrated the hull and below the flight deck before exploding violently, killing 27 men. If being the case, Corvina was the only US sub sunk by another enemy submarine during the Second World War. She returned to duty in September. Trigger was ordered to join a wolf pack of nearby subs on the 26th, which the submarine never acknowledged. USS YSP-42 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Poor accuracy affected both sides, but the Allied fleet took more damage and was unable to attack the Japanese transports. Although all enemy bombs landed in water, one bomb missed the Wadsworth by less than twenty feet, spraying shrapnel across the deck. The torpedo passed alongside, but the plane crashed into San Francisco's control aft, swung around that structure, and plunged over the port side into the sea. One of the planes dove on the Rodman, and crashed into her port bow. 164 of her crew went down with the Barton while 42 survivors were rescued. 77 more of Houston's crew would die while in captivity. USSDewey(YFD-1) scuttled to prevent capture at Bataan, Philippine Islands, 10 April 1942. Three men had been killed and another twenty wounded as several compartments flooded aft. USSSt. Louis(CL-49) engaged an enemy force on 12 July 1942 consisting of the Japanese cruiser Jintsu and five destroyers in the Battle of Kolombangara. She suffered 36 men killed and 59 were wounded. USSSculpin(SS-191) was on her ninth patrol of the war attempting to disrupt Japanese reinforcement of the Gilbert Islands before the Invasion of Tarawa when in the early morning of 19 November 1943, the submarine attacked a convoy of ships only to be fired on by an enemy destroyer. Her survivors were strafed by remaining Japanese planes until escorts were able to rescue Abele's men from the water. The suicide plane smashed into the mainmast and forward stack of the ship, wounding five men and starting several fires. The submarine's captain and four other men were washed off the conning tower as the boat sank and were later rescued. Although four men were killed in the attack, her operational capability was not significantly compromised. 2 magazine. Several of her crew were wounded, but none were killed. The first biplane hit near the No.3 five-inch turret, detonating the powder bags and causing a huge explosion at 08:34, while just seconds later the second biplane bounced off the water before impacting the No.4 five-inch gun turret setting off another huge fireball. USS LCT(6)-714 sunk off northern France, June 1944. O'Brien's own gunfire was so accurate that enemy gunnery positions shifted from Texas to O'Brien. U.S. Navy at War, 19411945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy. The ship returned to Pearl Harbor for repairs. Five men would die during three and a half years of brutal treatment, but eventually fifty-four men from the Perch finally made it home.
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