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The escort carrier USS Block...

history · 29 May 1944 · 80 years ago

The escort carrier USS Block Island was torpedoed by a German U-boat while on anti-submarine patrol near the Azores. This was the first and only US Navy Aircraft Carrier to be lost in the Atlantic Ocean. 

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