SS Hobbs Victory was a cargo Victory ship built for World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. Hobbs Victory, was launched on January 9, 1945...
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the Canada Victory. The SS Logan Victory and SS Hobbs Victory were also hit by kamikaze planes at Okinawa. The Logan Victory and Hobbs Victory sank as fires...
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examples of Victory troopship are: SS Aiken Victory, SS Chanute Victory, SS Cody Victory, SS Colby Victory, SS Cranston Victory, SS Gustavus Victory, SS Hagerstown...
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ammunition ships SS Logan Victory and SS Hobbs Victory were set ablaze and sank after kamikaze attack planes hit them. Pierre Victory was credited with...
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disintegrated in seconds with the loss of all hands. SS Canada Victory, SS Logan Victory and SS Hobbs Victory were hit by kamikaze aircraft at Okinawa and sank...
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the burning ships. All these ammunition ships: SS Logan Victory, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Pierre Victory and USS LST-447 used their deck guns and were able...
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Combined Fleet. A veteran of Japan's crushing victory over Russia at the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War, the Pearl...
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World War II: The Pacific Theater. Lecture 21. Professor Craig Symonds Hobbs, David (January 2013). "The Royal Navy's Pacific Strike Force". US Naval...
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USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
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USS Bullhead (redirect from SS-332)
USS Bullhead (SS-332), a Balao-class submarine, was the last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War II, probably on the same day that an atomic...
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In this battle, Newcomb and her sister ships played a key role in the victory which insured the success of General Douglas MacArthur's return to the...
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Near the Clovis Victory at Okinawa was the SS Hobbs Victory, on April 6, 1945, the Hobbs Victory was hit by a kamikaze plane. Hobbs Victory worked to put...
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USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
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Italian aircraft carrier converted from the transatlantic passenger liner SS Roma. During World War II, Work on Aquila began in late 1941 at the Ansaldo...
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April 2003 with the MS Fritz Reuter and an MDR-Team (in German) Photograph of SS Goya 55°12′02″N 18°18′36″E / 55.20056°N 18.31000°E / 55.20056; 18.31000...
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USS Snook (SS-279), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the common snook, an Atlantic marine fish that...
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USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
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USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
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USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
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USS Pogy (SS-266), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pogy, or menhaden. She was credited with sinking...
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USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
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The SS Karlsruhe was a German cargo ship from 1905 of the Hamburg America Line, which was sunk on 13 April 1945 with great loss of life by Soviet aircraft...
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USMS North Star III (redirect from SS Emory Victory)
USMS North Star III (originally named MV Emory Victory (MCV-654)) was a Victory ship built in 1945. The ship was transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
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570 crewmen from the carrier Shōkaku after it was torpedoed by USS Cavalla (SS-244). After dry dock and refitting at Kure Naval Arsenal from late June to...
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SS Vale was a cargo steamship that was built in Germany in 1939 for Seereederei „Frigga“. In the Second World War she carried German refugees and wounded...
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USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
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needed to build and operate the Okinawa Bases. SS Canada Victory, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory each an ammunition ship, were attacked and sank...
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