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SC WORLD WAR II SERVICE
The 110-foot, wood-hulled, World War II Subchaser (SC), can trace its origin back to the World War I "Splinter Fleet." Like its predecessor, the SC was designed primarily for off-shore patrols and Anti-submarine warfare (ASW). Along with the 173-foot, steel-hulled, Patrol Craft (PC), the SC played a major role in suppressing the German U-Boat threat along the Atlantic seaboard.
Though small in size, the SC soon became the "work horse" of the Navy, performing a variety of assignments, often operating under extremely hazardous conditions. The SCs saw action in every combat theater world-wide.
The SC also proved to be an effective Beach Control Craft, (SCC), guiding the landing craft in amphibious landings in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. During D-Day operations, they performed air-sea rescue duties in the English channel, rescuing downed Allied airmen.
The SCCs were operational in the Asiatic-Pacific theater as well. Assigned to "MacArthur's Navy," they participated in every amphibious landing operation, often sailing within range of the Japanese shore batteries.
The end of hostilities saw the SCC crews trained and ready to lead the Allied invasion forces in the invasion of the Japanese homeland.
thanks to: Mark Matyas
VICTORIES
| SC 669 |
Sank Japanese submarine RO-107 |
05-29-43 |
SCs LOST OR DAMAGED
| SC 709 |
Grounded off Nova Scotia |
01-21-43 |
| SC 1024 |
Sunk in collision off North Carolina |
03-02-43 |
| SC 740 |
Grounded in the New Hebrides |
06-17-43 |
| SC 751 |
Grounded off Australia |
06-22-43 |
| SC 694 |
Sunk by German dive-bombers off Sicily |
08-23-43 |
| SC 696 |
Sunk by German dive-bombers off Sicily |
08-23-43 |
| SC 666 |
Damaged in collision off Italy |
09-13-43 |
| SC 1067 |
Foundered and sunk in the Aleutians |
11-19-43 |
| SC 700 |
Sunk by shore gunfire, Vella Lavella |
03-10-44 |
| SC 984 |
Grounded in the New Hebrides |
04-09-44 |
| SC 699 |
Damaged by kamikaze, New Guinea |
05-27-44 |
| SC 1326 |
Damaged by Jap coastal gun, Marianas |
07-21-44 |
| SC 633 |
Grounded At Palau Islands |
1944 |
| SC 1029 |
Damaged in explosion, Southern France |
08-15-44 |
| SC 535 |
Damaged in storm, Southern France |
09-03-44 |
| SC 1059 |
Grounded in the Bahamas |
12-11-44 |
| SC 744 |
Sunk by kamikaze in Leyte Gulf, P.I. |
11-27-44 |
| SC 667 |
Grounded in Okinawa |
04-10-45 |
| SC 737 |
Grounded in the Sulu Sea |
04-20-45 |
| SC 1019 |
Grounded in the Yucatan channel |
04-22-45 |
| SC 521 |
Foundered and sunk in the Solomons |
07-10-45 |
SC's Converted to PGMs - LOST OR DAMAGED
| PGM 7 |
Sunk in collision in the Bismark Sea |
07-18-44 |
| PGM 1 |
Damaged by explosion, Luzon, P.I. |
05-19-45 |
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