USS Liscome Bay (ACV/CVE-56) was the second of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built to serve the United States Navy during World War II. Launched...
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Battle of Makin (section Sinking of USS Liscome Bay)
escort carriers USS Liscome Bay, USS Coral Sea and USS Corregidor; followed by 8-inch (200 mm) support guns from fire support ship USS Minneapolis and...
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She is best known for sinking the United States Navy escort carrier USS Liscome Bay on 24 November 1943. The submarines of the KD6B sub-class were very...
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carrier Liscome Bay, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Makin in the Gilbert Islands. The destroyer escort/Knox-class frigate USS Miller...
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States Naval Service." Chief Yeoman Benjamin Sachs (Missing in Action) USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), Gilbert Islands Citation: "The President of the United States...
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USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. During the Battle off Samar, part of the overall Battle of Leyte...
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division and task force group when his flagship, the escort carrier USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), was sunk by a Japanese submarine near the Gilbert Islands...
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USS William D. Porter (DD-579) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Commodore William D. Porter (1808–1864), during World...
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USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. Nautilus...
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was killed in action during World War II, when the aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-175 and sank southwest of...
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