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| Keywords: USS Stewart (DD-224) being sunk as target01 1946.jpg The U S Navy destroyer USS Stewart DD-224 being sunk as a target off California on 24 May 1946 Three aircraft two Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat and a Vought F4U Corsair attack her with rockets Their steep angle of approach so close to the surface and close spacing between them strongly indicates that this is a composite photograph <br> Stewart had been captured by the Japanese damaged and sunk in a floating drydock at Surabaya Java She was reparied and commissioned as Patrol Boat No 102 on 20 September 1943 The ship was found laid up by U S occupation forces and recommissioned on 29 October 1945 as DD-224 as USS Stewart DE-238 was active with the U S Navy Note that she wears both the Japanese hull number P102 as the U S Navy hull number 224 on this photo Stewart was transferred back to the U S but had to be towed before reaching Guam as her machinery gave out http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194607 pdf July 1946 p 50; official U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-700000/80-G-702830 html 80-G-702830 from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command 1945 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Stewart DD-224 Sinking exercises | ||||
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