That night, one of those submarines - the I-175 under Lieutenant Commander Sunao Tabata - slipped into range of the USS Liscome Bay, an escort carrier vulnerable due to a gap in its protective screen.

During the ceremony, Osher dedicated a plaque honoring the 644 men killed in the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay, the deadlists carrier sinking in US history. Osher’s cousin, Stewart Franklin ...

USS Liscome Bay ferrying aircraft to San Diego on September 20, 1943. US Navy LIEUTENANT JOSEPH CASTELLO DROPPED HIS FM-1 WILDCAT out of the morning sky and, with a waggle of his wings ...

Farren served aboard the USS Liscome Bay, which sank in the Pacific on Thanksgiving Day in 1943.Farren was presumed dead, his body lost at sea. His surviving sister was given the Purple Heart ...