USS Liscome Bay
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USS Liscome Bay was the second of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built to serve the United States Navy during World War II. Launched in April 1943 and commissioned the following August, she wa
USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), ferrying aircraft to San Diego, 20 September 1943
Burial at sea aboard troopship Leonard Wood of two Liscome Bay sailors, victims of the submarine attack by I-175: In the foreground facing the ceremony are survivors of Liscome Bay.
Painted-glass windows which act as a memorial to Liscome Bay at Valley Forge Military College
Painted-glass windows which act as a memorial to Liscome Bay at Valley Forge Military College
Japanese submarine I-175
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I-75, later I-175, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai-type cruiser submarine of the KD6B subclass commissioned in 1938. During World War II, she took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle o
USS Liscome Bay
…in Dall Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska. On 24 November 1943, her munitions were catastrophically detonated by a torpedo attack by the Japanese submarine I-175 while she was acting as the flagship of Carrier Division 24, which was supporting operations on Makin. She quickly sank with the loss of 702 officers…
I-75 in late October 1941.