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- The U.S. forces were determined to sink Yamato, and from the first attack at 12:37 to the final crippling explosion at 14:23, the battleship was hit by at least 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs. She sank rapidly, losing an estimated 3,055 of her 3,332 crew, including fleet commander Vice-Admiral Seiichi Itō.
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Feb 8, 2015 · During the operation, on 13 August, she was torpedoed and disabled by two Italian motor torpedo boats and subsequently scuttled with explosive charges. She was the largest ship sunk by motor torpedo boats during the Second World War.1. 1 Malvezzi, Pierluigi. "MAS, VAS and MS". Regia Marina Italiana. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
The largest offensive mining operation in World War II was the laying of about 50,000 British ground mines in NW Europe by British aircraft for the loss of approximately 500 aircraft. 4 British mines sank 1,043 Axis ships compared to about 432 Axis ships sunk by British submarines. 5
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USS Tullibee (SS-284) was one of the U.S. Navy’s seventy-seven Gato-class submarines. These were the first American mass-produced submarines and were a realization of long-standing goals to make a submarine with a longer range and higher endurance. These qualities quickly became necessary to meet the demands of missions in the Pacific theater of Wo...
USS Tullibeewas launched from the Mare Island Navy Yard in California on November 11, 1942, and was commissioned on February 15, 1943. It was just in time for the tides of war to start changing in the Pacific. After going through the required shakedown cruise, Tullibeesailed to Hawaii on May 8, 1943. Once there, the entire crew had to undergo furth...
Things hardly changed when Tullibeewent on its first patrol on July 19, 1943. It was tasked with patrolling the Saipan-Truk traffic lane, searching for Japanese cargo ships. The goal was to disrupt the supply lines of the Japanese stronghold at the Truk Lagoon, where the majority of the Japanese fleet was at the time. Still inexperienced, Tullibee‘...
It was March 5, 1944, when Tullibeeleft Pearl Harbor after almost an entire month of rest. A week later, it reached Midway, refueled and set out on its fourth patrol on March 14. The orders were to sail north of Palau Island to participate in Desecrate One — an operation by 11 aircraft carriers against Japanese forces at Palau. It was the last time...
The war continued, and the Tullibeecrew of 60 men was written off. Their mourning families were denied any answer as to what had happened. But when the war ended. The answer suddenly came out of nowhere. The Japanese government surrendered on September 2, 1945. Five days before, the occupation of Japan had begun. Allied soldiers being held in capti...
On March 26, 19-year-old Gunner’s Mate 2ndClass Cliff Kuykendall was on lookout duty on the bridge when a convoy of a troopship, three freighters, and three escort ships was spotted on the radar. It was pouring rain but commanding officer Charles F. Brindupke was determined to attack. It was only at the third attempt that he managed to fire two tor...
The weakest point of the US Navy submarine force was definitively the Mark-14 torpedo. It was developed during the Depression Era in the 1930s when the industry was down on its knees. This allowed the entire project to pass with numerous bugs unnoticed. In short, the weapon was highly unreliable. It tended to run too deep, to explode prematurely or...
Torpedoes have two very important claims to fame: they were the first guided missiles, and they have probably sunk more ships than any other naval weapon. Further, from the viewpoint of sub surface warfare the torpedo has always been the major offensive weapon of submarines and during WWII it began its development into the pre-eminent anti ...
Mar 13, 2015 · On October 24, 1944, U.S. warplanes swarmed at the Leviathan of battleships, Japan’s Musashi, splashing down torpedoes or dive bombing it. It took them four hours and more than 25 direct hits to...
Dec 20, 2023 · The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato – along with her sister ship Musashi – was the largest battleship ever constructed. her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest ever...
Sep 23, 2021 · Captain Sharp estimated 5,500, but one Royal Engineer officer was told that there were more than 7,200 persons aboard. Lancastria was attacked, apparently by five Junkers Ju 88 dive bombers, and the ship capsized, and sank within twenty minutes mid-afternoon on June 17 off the French port of St. Nazaire.
