09:0909:09, 4 May 2024diffhist+310
Battle of Makin
The Navy Department War Damage Report for USS Liscome Bay said the total loss of life had been placed at 648 men and 54 officers.current
09:0209:02, 4 May 2024diffhist+638
USS Liscome Bay
The Navy Department War Damage Report for USS Liscome Bay said the total loss of life had been placed at 648 men and 54 officers.
07:3107:31, 14 April 2024diffhist+958
USS Texas (BB-35)
Texas received $25 million more from the Texas legislature in 2023 for a total of $60 million for the drydock and off-drydock repairs.
08:0408:04, 12 April 2024diffhist−126
USS Slater
USS Atherton (BRP Rajah Humabon) was sunk by a typhoon in the Philippines in 2022. Scheduled to be scrapped.current
07:2707:27, 12 April 2024diffhist+303
Battle of the Coral Sea
There were 252 sailors on USS Sims. Only 13 survived, 14 initially but 1 died of wounds after being rescued by a destroyer. There were 293 sailors on USS Neosho. 110 total survived after 1 sailor died of wounds on one destroyer and 2 missing sailors on a raft were rescued by a different destroyer a week later.
21:2921:29, 16 March 2024diffhist0
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur never resigned his commission and he was never court martialed and dismissed from the Army. All five-star Generals of the Army and Fleet Admirals remained commissioned officers until their death.
07:2007:20, 10 March 2024diffhist−58
Operation Kikusui
The 4,907 KIA numbers is the total death toll of U.S. Navy sailors at only the Battle of Okinawa. Many more victims of kamikaze attacks were killed in other battles especially in the Philippines (like Leyte Gulf and Lingayen Gulf), adding to the 4,907 killed at Okinawa.current
07:1207:12, 10 March 2024diffhist0
Battle of Okinawa
In the Joseph Springer "Inferno" 2011 book (paperback version) about USS Franklin the author updates the casualties numbers for Franklin upwards to 807 KIA. On the back of the paperback version itself it says "807 killed".
01:0101:01, 9 March 2024diffhist+452
USS Franklin (CV-13)
The 807 KIA number is from historian Joseph A. Springer who wrote "Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II". NHHC is citing Springer, not "some random Wikipedia edit". Springer updated the Franklin numbers to 807 in recent years.
3 March 2024
03:1003:10, 3 March 2024diffhist+143
Battle of Okinawa
Director of the Naval History and Heritage Command Rear Admiral Samuel J. Cox, citing recent research, gives higher numbers of 807 killed and at least 487 wounded.Tag: Reverted
03:0703:07, 3 March 2024diffhist+200
USS Franklin (CV-13)
The U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command says 807 were killed and 487 were wounded on Franklin due to the attack in March 1945Tag: Reverted