From the March 17, 2017, Scout/Warrior "A Famous & Historic WW II Navy Ship Attacked Japanese Planes.
The USS Tracy, DD-214, sent fire and damage control crews to other battered American ships and set up machine guns with borrowed ammunition to protect the nearby USS Cummings and USS Pennsylvania. During the attack, it lost one man killed and 2 lost.
It was a destroyer/minesweeper laid down in 1919, commissioned in 1920 and was in Pearl Harbor that fateful day undergoing a massive overhaul.
It took part in mine laying March 1942 and then was at Guadalcanal. One of its mines sank the Japanese destroyer Makigumo. At Bougainville Island and Okinawa and it rescued survivors of a ship hit by a suicide boat attack.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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