USS Liscome Bay
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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 in April 1943 and commissioned the following August, she was named for 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 and sailors, including Doris Miller, the first black recipient of the Navy Cross and the namesake of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier Doris Miller. Her loss is the deadliest sinking of a carrier in the history of the United States Navy.
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speed 19 knot,
Kaiser Shipyards, United States Navy, 
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Location: 2.8, 172.6, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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USS Liscome Bay ⓘ
1943 Casablanca-class escort carrier
USS Liscome Bay CVE56
Sea burial
Dorie Miller commemorative plaque| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| object | watercraft | USS Liscome Bay | Casablanca-class escort carrier, escort carrier | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | USS Liscome Bay CVE56 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Sea burial | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Dorie Miller commemorative plaque | Commons | ||
